Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry by Helen Rappaport, Roger Watson

Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry

Helen Rappaport, Roger Watson

320 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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An intimate look at the journeys of two men—a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist—as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photographyDuring the 1830s, in an atmosphere of  intense scientific en...

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