Foreword / John Walsh -- Introduction / Weston Naef -- Eighteen thirty-nine: the birth of photography / Beaumont Newhall -- 'A wonderful illustration of necromancy': significant Talbot experimental prints in the J. Paul Getty Museum / Larry J. Schaef -- Souvenirs of the invention of photography on paper: Bayard, Talbot, and the triumph of negative-positive photography / Nancy B. Keeler -- 'A glaring act of scientific piracy?' / André Jammes -- Captain Brewster, calotypist / Graham Smith -- Sir Thomas Phillipps: photographic memoirs of a 'vellomaniac' / Eugenia Parry Janis -- Early photography and modernism / John Szarkowski -- An artist's persepctive on the photomechanical alternative to silver / Richard Benson.
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