Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Pencil of Nature (in English, The pencil of nature) is the first photographic and illustrated book in history, published in six installments between 1844 and 1846 by William Fox Talbot. The book details Talbot's development of the calotype and includes 24 prints made through this process. The book illustrates some of the possible applications of the new technology. The photos that are collected in it were pasted by hand, a method that years later would bring him problems because the images ended up damaged and he had to return the money to all the people who had bought it. The 24 illustrations were carefully selected to show the great possibilities of photography. They include various architectural studies, settings, still life, close-ups, facsimiles of plates, drawings and texts.Talbot includes a portrait despite the long exposure times, The Ladder (plate XIV). Although he was not an artist, Talbot always hoped to show how photography could become a new art form with images such as The Open Door (Plate VI). William Henry Fox Talbot (Dorset, February 11, 1800 - Lacock, Wiltshire, September 17, 1877) was a British photographer, inventor, archaeologist, botanist, philosopher, philologist, mathematician, and politician.
