{"product_id":"the-forms-of-nameless-things-geoffrey-batchen-9781851245932","title":"The Forms of Nameless Things: Experimental Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis collection features twenty-four of Fox Talbot's most experimental photographs.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e William Henry Fox Talbot, the English inventor of photography, created around 15,000 photographs in the nineteenth century, most of them attempts to produce compelling scientific documents or pictorial records of the world around him. However, among his surviving works are also prints in which an image has been obscured, obliterated, or simply failed to register. All that remains on these pieces of photographic paper are chemical stains or imprinted patterns or shapes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Borrowing its intriguing title from a poem written by Talbot, this book features twenty-four of these prints, originally intended as test prints or creative exercises. Offered to the reader as enigmatic physical artifacts, these failed or ruined photographs are here reanimated as objects of beauty, mystery, and promise, as artworks that speak of photography's most fundamental attributes and potentials. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An accompanying essay places these photographs in a broad historical context, revealing what relevance they have to the contemporary art of photography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey Batchen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1851245936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781851245932\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bodleian Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.40h x 9.60w x 0.50d","brand":"Geoffrey Batchen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073327427839,"sku":"9781851245932","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9b4c50ea-0898-4fef-97ed-64cc8ea44700.jpg?v=1685447181","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-forms-of-nameless-things-geoffrey-batchen-9781851245932","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}