Capturing the Light
08 February 2018Imprint: Macmillan
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
08 February 2018320 pages
9781509892037Imprint: Macmillan
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
