Title & Author:

Beautiful ambrotypes : early photographs / edited by Heather Forbes ; introduction by Paul Cox.

Publication:

London : Travelling Light, 1989.
©1989

Description:

48 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

19th century photographs

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46).
Introduction by Paul Cox -- The Ambrotype: Portrait of the Inventor Frederick Scott Archer by Robert Cole, c. 1855 --The Ambrotype: Invention and Experiment -- Studio Portraits of Family Faces -- Exceptionally Rare Interiors -- Snapshots at Last! -- The Main Steps to Making an Ambrotype -- Books for Further Information about Ambrotypes -- Cleaning and Repairing an Ambrotype --Acknowledgments

Summary:

"Ambrotypes are a unique kind of photograph. Produced in quantity between 1855 and 1863 and in use even to the 1890's, they capture the face and flavour of the Victorian era and, for the first time in photography's history opened this medium to a wide public gaze. When photography was announced in 1839 it was an elite who embraced it; the scientists and artists of the academy. This new means of recording and preserving facsimiles of the world was reserved for very few. Innovation and technical advances, and ambrotypes were among the first, brought the concept of photography to an audience far larger than its inventors had dreamed of. It was a process that gripped the entrepreneurial imagination and seeded a growth in the number of photographers from hundreds to thousands as photographs became part of popular culture." -- Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0906333253
9780906333259

Subject:

Ambrotype.
Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
ambrotype (wet collodion process)
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photography
Ambrotypie.
Photography, history

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Cox, Paul, 1940-2016, writer of introduction.
Forbes, Heather, 1948- editor.
19th century photographs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 52529
Call No.: ID:90-B1391
Status: Available