An intimate look at the journeys of two menmdash;a gentleman scientist and a visionary artistmdash;as they struggled to capture the world around them; and in the process invented modern photographyDuring the 1830s; in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution; two quite different menmdash;one in France; one in Englandmdash;developed their own dramatically different photographic processes in total ignorance of each others work. These two lone geniusesmdash;Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the heart of post-revolutionary Parismdash;through diligence; disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been trying to domdash;to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture the light and in so doing make nature paint its own portrait. With the creation of their two radically different processesmdash;the Daguerreotype and the Talbotypemdash;these two giants of early photography changed the world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original; contemporary sources and featuring plates in colour; sepia and black and white; many of them rare or previously unseen; Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport charts an extraordinary tale of genius; rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the worlds first photograph.
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