André Jammes, William Henry Fox Talbot; Inventor of the Negative-Positive Process
(New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1973).
Jammes, a noted Parisian bookseller, became the most active and the most sophisticated early collector of Talbot's images. In spite of a poor translation of the text, and mediocre reproduction quality of the images, this book gives a good insight into Jammes' strong vision. A major portion of his collection, including many of the photographs in this volume, is one of the essential elements of the J Paul Getty Museum collection of Talbot's images.
Robert Lassam, Fox Talbot, Photographer
(Tisbury, Wiltshire: Compton Press, 1979).
In 1977, Lassam, a former Kodak employee, became the first curator of the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock. Although some of the images are drawn from elsewhere, this volume concentrates on photographs that are on deposit at that museum.
John Ward and Sara Stevenson,
The Scientific Art of William Henry Fox Talbot and David Octavius Hill with Robert Adamson
(Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1986).
John Ward succeeded Dr Thomas as curator of photography at the Science Museum and continued in that post until the collection was transferred to the NMPFT. This book, which includes a few excellent colour illustrations, documents what will probably be the largest exhibition of Talbot's work that will ever be shown at one time.
Hubertus von Amelunxen,
Die Aufgehobene Zeit; Die Erfindung der Photographie durch William Henry Fox Talbot. With Michael Gray, "Zunächst verborgen, erscheine ich schließlich doch"
(Berlin: Verlag Dirk Nishen, 1988).
This is an excellent source of high quality reproductions of Talbot's images.
Unfortunately, the text is available only in German; the English translation,
Time Reprieved/Time Retrieved, was never published. The prints are impressive,
although they are given a uniformity in reproduction lacking in the originals,
and no distinction is drawn between reproductions made from vintage prints and
those made from modern copies. Mike Gray (the former curator of the Fox Talbot
Museum) contributes an afterword on Talbot's techniques, and includes a number
of highly important full colour reproductions of Talbot's early images.
Michael Gray, Arthur Ollman and Carol McCusker,
First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Birth of Photography
(New York: Powerhouse Books, 2002).
With short essays by Carol McCusker and Arthur Ollman, and a timeline provided by Michael Gray, this book documents the exhibition of the same name held at ICP in New York and at MOPA in San Diego. A number of useful and rarely seen images are reproduced.
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