List of Illustrations
ix
Prologue My First Daguerreotype xi
One The Locked Treasure Room
1(5)
Two Shadowgrams
6(8)
Three The Box of Wonders
14(9)
Four An Inheritance
23(8)
Five The Panorama
31(9)
Six An Innate Love of Knowledge
40(8)
Seven More Beautiful than Nature
48(11)
Eight Lacock Abbey
59(8)
Nine Seeking the Impossible
67(10)
Ten The Heliograph
77(11)
Eleven The Melancholy Artist
88(17)
Twelve Fixing the Image
105(600)
Thirteen The Latticed Window, August 1835
105(10)
Fourteen The Magic Cabinet
115(11)
Fifteen The Most Wonderful Discovery Ever Made
126(7)
Sixteen From Today, Painting is Dead
133(11)
Seventeen Photogenic Drawing
144(14)
Eighteen The Academie des Sciences, August 1839
158(8)
Nineteen Daguerreotypomania
166(7)
Twenty Portraiture
173(11)
Twenty-one The Pencil of Nature
184(13)
Twenty-two The Monopoly of the-Sunshine
197(7)
Twenty-three The Great Exhibition of 1851
204(10)
Twenty-four The Reluctant Inventor
214(12)
Twenty-five Art or Science?
226(12)
Twenty-six The Mute Testimony of the Picture
238(16)
Twenty-seven The Eye of History
254(13)
Epilogue Everyman's Art 267(8)
Acknowledgements 275(3)
Notes 278(13)
Bibliography 291(5)
Index 296