Photogenic Drawing by Henry Fox Talbot (Forerunner of the Caloty

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), size: 6 1/8 x 7 ¼ in. (15,5 x 18,5 cm). Talbot's first process of photogenic drawing used light sensitive silver salts to record nature's images, fixing the images by various methods. Photogenic drawing, which could be used to make both negatives and prints, produced images by solar energy alone, without a developer, but with long exposure times. The later Calotype negative process was an improvement that employed a developer to shorten the exposure time. Talbot's view of his Wiltshire home of Lacock Abbey is one of the earliest photographic images on paper.

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