The Pencil of Nature
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Lacock Abbey, Queen's College in Oxford, the boulevards of Paris, a haystack, a ladder and a bust of Patroclus are among the twenty-four plates in this early photographic work. William Henry Fox Talbot made them by the action of light on sensitive paper, which he calls photogenic drawing, and says he discovered about ten years before.
He presents it as the first attempt to publish pictures made wholly by that method, without the artist's pencil. A short historical sketch of the invention comes with the introductory remarks. It appeared in London in 1844, with Longman and others as publishers, in parts.
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- Author
- William Henry Fox Talbot
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes
- Pages
- 49
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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