The Forms of Nameless Things: Experimental Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot

by Geoffrey Batchen

This collection features twenty-four of Fox Talbot's most experimental photographs.

William Henry Fox Talbot, the English inventor of photography, created around 15,000 photographs in the nineteenth century, most of them attempts to produce compelling scientific documents or pictorial records of the world around him. However, among his surviving works are also prints in which an image has been obscured, obliterated, or simply failed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851245936
• ISBN13: 9781851245932
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.6" x 10.4"