The Talbotype in Paris : an all too brief encounter

31 Mar 2017: Guest post by Steven F Joseph This week’s blog will not be primarily about Talbot. However, it goes to the core of what we are trying to accomplish. Not at all by design, I fear that over the span of a few years of Talbot studies that I have assembled a stable of wonderful crazies …

Henry of the Surprise

24 Mar 2017: I have had the distinct privilege of seeing thousands of original Talbot negatives and prints in my lifetime, an experience that I hope that many of you will be able to replicate in this ‘museum without walls’ that is to be the Catalogue Raisonné. Yours will be the first generation to have that experience and …

Miscellanea Photogenica, No 3

17 Mar 2017: An occasional series of tasty morsels that cross my desk This has been an exciting week in Lake Wobegon, as Garrison Keillor would say. The response to the launch has been most gratifying, both in terms of readership and especially in providing useful feedback. Many of the comments have been about matters of fact (we …

The Eyes of March

10 Mar 2017: I hope that this past Tuesday you remembered to wish a happy birthday to Talbot’s friend, Sir John Herschel (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871). When Herschel first learned of Talbot’s photography the scientific basis of it made so much sense to him that he perfected his own independent process in less than a …

Miscellanea Photogenica, No 2

3 Mar 2017: an occasional series of tasty morsels that cross my desk The Three Percent Solution A fortnight ago, our birthday present to Henry in the form of the launch of our beta website brought the gratifying outpouring of suggestions (and corrections) that had been hoped for. Thanks to the efforts of Suzanne de la Rosa and …