Photography was entangled with art from the very moment of its invention by painter and printmaker Louis Daguerre in 1839. 'Painting With Light'is the first publication to explore the photography's complex and fascinating inter-relationship with painting and sculpture in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Opening with the experimental beginnings of the the medium in the 1830s and 40s, the book covers the full range of photography in Britain up to the early 1900s, concluding with its flowering as a distinct art form in the Pictorialism, which sought to express emotional and imaginative states through the photographic image.