At the Villa Melzi: A Journey to the Very Beginning of Photography
An account of a journey to the shores of Lake Como in Italy following in the footsteps of Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography as we know it. David Wise carried with him a copy of Fox Talbot?s sketches of the area in order to capture the scenes that had inspired the creation of the art and also a Baedeker 'Guide to North Italy', 1913 edition, in order to experience how much the world has changed in the past 75 years. The book contains 50 black and white pinhole images and 10 pages of accompanying text.
70 pages
English edition · First published 2008 by Urban Fox Press · ISBN 9781905522293
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