The first negatives; an account of the discovery and early use of the negative-positive photographic process, by D.B. Thomas.

Main entry:

Thomas, David Bowen, author.

Title & Author:

The first negatives; an account of the discovery and early use of the negative-positive photographic process, by D.B. Thomas.

Publication:

London, H.M. Stationery Off., 1964.

Description:

39 pages illustrations 24 cm.

Series:

A Science Museum monograph

Notes:
Based on photographs and documents from the collection of the London Science Museum.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 40-41).
Foreword -- Introduction -- Photogenic drawings -- The public announcement of photography -- The discovery of the calotype process -- Talbot, the photographer -- The exploitation of the calotype process -- Henry Collen, the first licensee -- Antoine Claudet -- The printing establishment at Reading -- The introduction of negative-positive photography to Scotland -- The calotype in America -- The calotype in France -- The end of calotype process

Summary:

In 1937 the first negatives and thousands of the very earliest of photographs still lay virtually unseen for ninety years in a cupboard at Lacock Abbey. Later in that year Miss Matilda Talbot, C.B.E., grand-daughter of William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the negative-positive photographic process, generously presented to the Science Museum much of this invaluable material together with some of her grandfather's apparatus, laboratory notebooks and letters. This monograph gives an opportunity for publishing a small selection of the photographs illustrating an account of the discovery and use of the calotype process, the first photographic process to utilize the chemical development of the latent image produced by briefly exposing silver salts to light. -- Introduction.

ISBN:

0112900895
9780112900894

Subject:

Photography History.
Photography Negatives.
Photographie Histoire.
Négatifs (Photographie)
negatives (photographs)
Photography
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Science Museum (Great Britain)
Science Museum monograph.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 15833
Call No.: ID:87-B4747
Status: Available

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