The River Thames Revisited In the Footsteps of Henry Taunt

by Diprose, Graham; Robins, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780711227651
• ISBN10: 0711227659
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-16
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Summary

Henry Taunt was one of the most prolific and innovative of Victorian photographers, and the River Thames was his favourite subject. The River Thames Revisited selects 75 of his finest photographs and revisits those sites today, recording the same views with cutting edge digital technology.This extraordinarily beautiful and powerful book is published to coincide with an exhibition of Henry Taunt's photographs at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley on Thames. It evokes a vanished world at the sam time as it captures the contemporary beauty of a timeless landscape. The commentary is based on Taunt's own numerous guidebooks.

Author Biography

Jeff Robins teaches postgraduate courses in digital image-making at the London College of Communication.

Table of Contents

The Life and Times of Henry Taunt	p. 8
In the Footsteps of Henry Taunt	p. 20
'Camping Out in a Boat' from A New Map of the River Thames	p. 162
Henry Taunt's A New Map of the River Thames	p. 168
Photography in the Nineteenth Century: The Making of Henry Taunt's A New Map of the River Thames	p. 180
Photography in the Twenty-first Century: The Making of The River Thames Revisited	p. 186
Index	p. 188
Acknowledgements	p. 191
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