(Hardback)

A fascinating history of photography centered on the outside factors that caused photographs to flourish.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

This book features 24 of William Henry Fox Talbot's experimental prints. Offered to the reader as enigmatic physical artefacts, an accompanying essay illustrated with comparative images places these photographs in a broad historical context, revealing what relevance Talbots experiments have to contemporary concepts of the art of photography.

(Paperback)

An essential guide to an essential book, this first anthology on Camera Lucida offers critical perspectives on Barthes's influential text.

(Paperback)

In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography.