FOX TALBOT AND THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY

This book makes a case that William Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of the negative/positive process, creator of color-tinted photographs and discoverer of the latent image and halftone reproduction, is the father of photography. Extensively illustrated with Talbot's photograpahs. Closed tears on front and back of dust jacket. vi , 216 pages. cloth with dust jacket. square 4to..