Capturing the Light
25 April 2013Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Capturing the Light starts with a tiny scrap of purple-tinged paper, 176 years old and about the size of a postage stamp. On it you can just make out a tiny, ghostly image of a gothic window, an image so small and perfect that it ‘might be supposed to be the work of some Lilliputian artist’: the world’s first photographic...
Details
25 April 2013300 pages
9780230771512Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘The history of photography told as a fierce race between two rivals . . . Reads like a scientific thriller’ Observer
‘Cheerfully readable … the authors’ enthusiasm for those pioneering days of photography, the drama and the sense of something fabulous just over the horizon, is catching.’ Sunday Telegraph
