Hamel, Joseph. Niepce, Daguerre, or Talbot? or The Quest of Joseph Hamel to Find the Real Inventor of Photography by Serge Plantureux. Untitled (Friends of Photography) such as submarine pioneer Simon

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Hamel, Joseph. Niepce, Daguerre, or Talbot? or The Quest of Joseph Hamel to Find the Real Inventor of Photography by Serge Plantureux. Untitled (Friends of Photography) such as submarine pioneer SimonVenti 3, 2004. Small format, illustrated boards, 48 pages. 1st ed. in English, revised from 2003 French edition. [Hamel was a Russian scientist of German parentage who met both Talbot and Daguerre and sent reports back to Russia. Includes bibliography.] Like new. Summary: iepce, Daguerre, or Talbot? or The Quest of Joseph Hamel to Find the Real Inventor of Photography is a highly illustrated historical monograph written by antiquarian photography