Publisher/赤々舎

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A collection of works by British scientist and photographic inventor William Henry Fox Talbot. This book is a complete Japanese version of "The Pencil of Nature," which is said to be the world's first photo book. The original work published in the 1840s in the form of separate volumes from Volume 1 to Volume 6. From the preface that points out the background to the discovery of photography and its importance, 24 plates recorded and texts attached to each. Under the idea of Masaru Aoyama, who teaches at Osaka Seikei University, with the cooperation of photographer Naoya Hatakeyama and designer Shoichi Onishi, supervised by photographer and curator Michael Gray, who was the director of the Fox Torbot Museum. A collection of works that have been provided with photographic plates and have seen the light of day with the publication of Akakasha, a leading art publisher in Japan. In addition to the translation of the original work, this is a gorgeous edition that includes contributions, discussions, and related plates by the above-mentioned people. A good book to know the origin of photography.