Transcript William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot
• Born in 18OO
• Studied at Cambridge
• On tri to Lake Como in Italy, sketched landsca e using
camera lucida….metal arm on board with rism at other
end…
• Rojected image lacked sohistication and detail when
drawn
• Romted Talbot to begin inventing a rocess for caturing
image
• Figured out how to cature image with short exosure
time and then chemically develo and fix….couldnt see
image until rocessed above calotye
Flowers, Leaves, and Stem
c. 1838
Cloisters, Lacock Abbey
1843
Pantheon
1843
The Haystack
1844-45
Nicolaas Henneman, Asleep
c. 1844-45
Ships at Low Tide
c. 1844
Resources
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures
/fox_talbot_william_henry.shtml
• http://www.masters-ofphotography.com/T/talbot/talbot.html
Critique
comparative