Painting with fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, photography, and the temporally evolving chemical object

"This book does nothing less than revise the history of photography in its incipient moments. It tells a story of radical chemical experiments at the London academies, and he traces how some of the most exciting reproductive techniques and patents of the late eighteenth century fared during the...

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Main Author: Hunter, Matthew C. 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London The University of Chicago Press [2019]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"This book does nothing less than revise the history of photography in its incipient moments. It tells a story of radical chemical experiments at the London academies, and he traces how some of the most exciting reproductive techniques and patents of the late eighteenth century fared during the nineteenth, when entrepreneurs tried to refine them into alternative technologies to photography"--
Physical Description:v, 275 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen 26 cm
ISBN:9780226390253
022639025X

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