The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot.(Review)

Art in America | September 1, 2001| | Copyright

The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot, by Larry J. Schaaf, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2000; 264 pages, $75.

Photography can be called the first truly modern artistic medium. Its nature is paradoxical, and William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), the scientist who invented it, embodied its paradoxes. In the progress of his experiments, which Larry J. Schaaf knows better than any other photo historian, we witness the emergence from Romanticism decades before Duchamp, of readymade art, created through a combination of light, chemicals and ...

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