Waterloo, Leucotypes & Talbotype 177

29 Sep 2017: Oak Tree Galls on their way towards becoming Gallic Acid During this week last year we celebrated the birth of the Talbotype by referring back to a 2015 blog, To the Calotype: Happy 175th Birthday! That outlined the astonishing moment of discovery – astonishing even to Henry himself – that a previously undetected latent image …

Storing Sunshine

22 Sep 2017: guest post by Brian Liddy Of all the seasons autumn is my favourite. As the days shorten, summer transitions to winter. Leaves turn and conkers appear on roadsides and earthy whiffs rise after late summer showers. Meanwhile geese take arrow formations across the sky and the air noticeably chills as the sun sets earlier every …

A Brace of Most Worthy Men

15 Sep 2017: . It is my annual duty to recognise the life of William Henry Fox Talbot, who passed away peacefully at Lacock Abbey on Sunday of this week, 17 September 1877. In past years, we have commemorated this day with an evocative cyanotype by John Dugdale and by using one of Talbot’s own photographs. Today’s contribution …

The Last of the Summer Pleasures: Feline Fotographics

8 Sep 2017: As summer is drawing to a close, this will be our final Summer Pleasures for 2017. These shorter blogs were designed to intrude as little as possible on your beach reading and I hope that you have enjoyed them. As we get back into the swing of things, once again all readers are invited to …

Summer Pleasures: The Reduction of a Large Italian

1 Sep 2017: I am working this week at Yale’s Center for British Art and of course I could not skip a visit to the Beinecke Library (please don’t let them know that I played hooky). One of the very few buildings from the 1960s that does not demand profuse apologies, the Library is an enormous box of …