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Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of natural objects such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakes, and more to produce an image. Author Matthew Zucker has spent decades curating the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled, with more than 13,000 images across 120 rare and seminal works, including journals, published books, unique manuscripts, American currency, and instructional texts related to nature printing from 1733 to 1902.

This gorgeous volume explores Zucker's collection, allowing readers to see these nature prints presented side by side for the first time. Enabling unique comparisons, this book creates a visually stunning journey of printing method developments over a 150-year period, including photography and cyanotypes. The ultimate guide to nature printing, *Capturing Nature* is a beautiful reference work for scholars, artists, designers, botanists, and anyone interested in nature, botanical illustration, and printing.

Photography --- nature prints --- botany --- cyanotypes [photographic prints] --- nature photography --- printing techniques

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The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of ""the real"" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful examination of a network of local scholars-from physicians to farmers to bureaucrats-known as Shohyaku-sha. In their archival materials, these scholars used the term shashin (which would, years later, come to signify ""photography"" in Japanese) in a wide variety of medical, botanical,

J7530 --- J7000.70 --- Art and science --- -Botanical illustration --- -Plant prints --- -Photography --- -Realism in art --- -Realism (Art) --- Plant impressions --- Botanical drawing --- Flower painting and illustration --- Fruit painting and illustration --- Illustration, Botanical --- Science and art --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- botany, flora --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan --- -History --- 19th century --- -19th century --- Botanical illustration --- Photography --- Plant prints --- Realism in art --- Realism (Art) --- Idealism in art --- Naturalism in art --- Romanticism in art --- Nature prints --- Plants in art --- Biological illustration --- Natural history illustration --- Science --- History --- Japan: Science and technology -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- botany, flora