Today I visited the ancestral home of Henry Fox Talbot, the British inventor of the positive-negative process of photography in 1839. He called his process the calotype. I will have more to say about the history of Talbot and his process at a later date on my new "
About Photography" blog.
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| Lacock Abbey was the ancestral home of Henry Fox Talbot. His earliest photography was largely taken on its premises. |
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| On the left is a print of made from the oldest photographic negative in existance. It was taken by Talbot from inside Lacock Abbey. Next to it is a photograph I took today showing the same window from the outside. |
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| A portrait of Henry Fox Talbot taken in 1864. |
It was definitely an exciting experience to be on the site of the birthplace of modern photography. As I walked around the premises photographing with the latest in digital photography, the Nikon D800, I wondered what Fox Talbot would think of how far his invention has come.
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