Roger Watson is a world authority on the early history of photography. He is currently the Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey and an occasional lecturer at DeMontfort University in Leicester. Helen Rappaport is a historian with a specialism in the nineteenth century and revolutionary Russia. She is the author of eight published books, including Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs and Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy.
Section
i: List of Illustrations Section
ii: Prologue: My First Daguerreotype Chapter
1: The Locked Treasure Room Chapter
2: Shadowgrams Chapter
3: The Box of Wonders Chapter
4: An Inheritance Chapter
5: The Panorama Chapter
6: An Innate Love of Knowledge Chapter
7: More Beautiful than Nature Chapter
8: Lacock Abbey Chapter
9: Seeking the Impossible Chapter
10: The Heliograph Chapter
11: The Melancholy Artist Chapter
12: Fixing the Image Chapter
13: The Latticed Window, August 1835 Chapter
14: The Magic Cabinet Chapter
15: The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made Chapter
16: From Today, Painting is Dead Chapter
17: Photogenic Drawing Chapter
18: The Académie des Sciences, August 1839 Chapter
19: Daguerreotypomania Chapter
20: Portraiture Chapter
21: The Pencil of Nature Chapter
22: The Monopoly of the Sunshine Chapter
23: The Great Exhibition of 1851 Chapter
24: The Reluctant Inventor Chapter
25: Art or Science? Chapter
26: The Mute Testimony of the Picture Chapter
27: The Eye of History Section
iii: Epilogue: Everyman¿s Art Acknowledgements
iv: Acknowledgements Section
v: Notes Section
vi: Bibliography Index
vii: Index
