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With rarely seen images, this handsome, affordable volume shows Talbot's wide-ranging interests

This beautiful publication serves as a primer on the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, a true interdisciplinary innovator who drew on his knowledge of art, botany, chemistry and optics to become one of the inventors of photography in 1839. Talbot's "photogenic drawings" (photograms), calotypes and salted paper prints are some of the first-ever examples of images captured on paper.

Accompanying an exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh opening in November...

Frederic Church (1826 1900), who gained international renown for paintings such as Niagara (1857), Heart of the Andes (1859), Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), and The Icebergs (1861), was inspired by his extensive travel and study. His work was also informed by his appreciation of a new visual medium. Fire and Ice, a selection from the several thousand photographs and daguerreotypes Church collected at Olana, his Orientalist home on the Hudson River, provides insight into the interests and taste of one of nineteenth-century America's greatest...

Photographer and filmmaker Nic Nicosia makes pictures. Since the late 1970s, Nicosia has staged and constructed sets, objects, and situations to be photographed rather than to reproduce something that already exists. These conceptual fabrications have ranged from elaborate sets with live actors to dioramas and abstract constructions. Whether his pictures contain a disturbing suburban narrative, or are fabricated by the act of drawing, or are simply created by the use of common objects with dramatic lighting, the familiar thread of Nicosia's unique vision and sensibility is always...

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied a German naturalist and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832 34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors designed to illustrate Maximilian s journals now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems...