The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot Mara Palena The Return of the Shadow

The Return of the Shadow by J R R Tolkien published by Harper Collins in 1993

All of the photographs in The Lake were shot on film in multiple formats and printed in various alternative photographic techniques

Following her previous book When I Was a Boy

Signed by Ben Aaronovitch to title pages

The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot Mara Palena The Return of the ShadowFirst edition, second printing of The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot by Larry J. Schaaf. Medium format hardback in fine condition. About William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 1877) is best remembered as the scientist who invented photography. Others had tried recording the images projected by a lens, but Talbot was the first to grasp the physical basis for realizing this dream and to conceive of a practical means for fixing these ephemeral