x, 306 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Prologue: My First Daguerreotype The Locked Treasure Room Shadowgrams The Box of Wonders An Inheritance The Panorama An Innate Love of Knowledge More Beautiful than Nature Lacock Abbey Seeking the Impossible The Heliograph The Melancholy Artist Fixing the Image The Latticed Window, August 1835 The Magic Cabinet The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made From Today, Painting is Dead Photogenic Drawing The Academie des Sciences, August 1939 Daguerrotypomania Portraiture The Pencil of Nature The Monopoly of the Sunshine The Great Exhibition of 1851 The Reluctant Inventor Art or Science? The Mute Testimony of the Picture The Eye of History Everyman's Art
