WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT/ PHOTOGRAPHY (CARNEGIE MUSEUM) (HB)

A handsome, small format primer on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, a true interdisciplinary innovator who drew on his knowledge of art history, botany, chemistry and optics to become one of the inventors of photography in 1839. The book reveals the photographer's early striving to test the boundaries of his medium at a historic moment when art and science intersected. With its luminous reproductions of Talbot's fragile works, it demonstrates that, in its earliest days, photography required a form of magic making and innovation that continues to inspire today.