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Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport is a detailed and extremely well researched investigation into the beginnings of photography. In essence, how the first two processes by Daguerre and Fox Talbot were developed (pardon the pun). The book's blurb states that this 'charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph' ... ' a true story of genius and rivalry'. Anyone interested in the history of photography will become immersed in this tale, even if they think they know it already.
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