The Formative Decades: Photography in Great Britain 1839-1920

This book contains a fascinating selection of early British photography from the collection of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas. Curator Roy Flukinger puts the work in its proper cultural context and writes specifically on each photograph. Work is by both obscure and well-known British photographers, including Talbot, Hill and Adamson, Fenton, Bedford, MacPherson, Bourne, and Rejlander.