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• Title:[Neues Licht. English.]
  First exposures : writings from the beginning of photography / Steffen Siegel, editor.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Siegel, Steffen, 1976- editor.
  Derviş, Martina, translator.
  Imrie, Malcolm, translator.
  J. Paul Getty Museum, issuing body.
  
• Published/Created:Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2017]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TR15 .N44713 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851.
  Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877.
  Photography--History--19th century--Sources.
  Commercial photography--History--19th century--Sources.
  Photography--Printing processes--History--19th century--Sources.
  Photography literature.
  
• Description:448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the "first" year of photography, not because the sensational new medium was invented then, but because that is the year it was introduced to the world. After more than 175 years, and for the first time in English, First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography brings together more than 130 primary sources from that very year--1839--subdivided into ten chapters and accompanied by fifty-three images of significant visual and historical importance."--Publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Includes English translations from works originally in French and German.
  
• ISBN:9781606065242 paperback
  1606065246 paperback
  
• Contents:Chapter 1. By Hearsay
  Chapter 2. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
  Chapter 3. William Henry Fox Talbot
  Chapter 4. The debate on photography
  Chapter 5. In parliament and academy
  Chapter 6. Daguerre's historical and descriptive account
  Chapter 7. First judgements
  Chapter 8. Alfred Donné
  Chapter 9. Satires
  Chapter 10. The future of photography.