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William Henry Fox Talbot
(1800-77)
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77),
Talbot used an early type of camera often
referred to as a ‘camera obscura’. He wanted
to be able to capture the images produced
onto paper.
Talbot's original contributions included the concept
of a negative from which many positive prints can
be made. Talbot produced glass negatives and
paper prints called Calotypes.
William Henry Fox Talbot
The Ladder
He
experimented
with contact
printing of
flowers, ferns
and leaves
directly on to
photographic
plates.
These were called
‘photogenic
drawings’. We call
them
‘photograms’.
William Henry Fox
Talbot, "Leaves of
Asparagus," 1840
Man Ray experimented with photograms, applying
them to a more ‘arty’ product that Man Ray called
‘Rayographs’. This is a form of Lensless Photography.
Talbot’s main rival in capturing photographs was
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre who had worked
with the man who was the first to produce a
permanent photographic image, Joseph Nicéphore
Niépce.
Daguerre produced silver plate ‘one off’
photographs called Daguerrotype. These were
kept inside small containers in order to prevent the
metal from scratching or tarnishing. They were
back to front, ‘mirror images’.
The modern ‘equivalent’ of a Daguerrotype would
be a Polaroid photograph- also a one off image.
Polaroid's sourced from the
internet
David Hockney – Polaroid
‘photocollage’
Web links:
Fox Talbot
National Trust Fox Talbot Museum
V&A Curtis Moffat Photograms webpage
Another nice Photograms site
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Man Ray
A brief history of photography