Sun Pictures Then and Now: Talbot and His Legacy Today

31 May 2018: guest post by Brian Liddy This week’s offering is a counterpoint to Larry’s previous blog, A Tale of Two Photo Londons. Larry’s blog alerted us to an exhibition curated by Hans P. Kraus Jr. which was soon to be unveiled at this year’s Photo London (not to be confused, of course, with the other photoLondon …

The Art of Circular Crystals

25 May 2018: Due to unforeseen circumstances, this week’s blog comes with an unexpected introduction from me, as Bodley’s Librarian, the successor to the wonderfully named Bulkeley Bandinel, who was the Librarian at the time that Talbot photographed the Library in the 1840s. Dr. Kelley Wilder, the author of the guest blog this week, is a respected figure …

Doing the Django – and Finding Talbot’s Calotype School in 1843 Paris

18 May 2018: Our Parisian Research Affiliate Édouard de Saint-Ours has made two contributions so far of some of the fascinating results of his close study of Talbot’s photographs of his home town. Today he more closely examines the role of the Marquis de Bassano. We have touched on the mysterious Marquis before. But first some exciting project …

A Tale of Two Photo Londons – Resurrection & Rebirth

11 May 2018: It is certainly confusing that there is a photoLondon and a Photo London. Although one died recently, Lazarus-like it has just been resuscitated. The second is a relative youngster, but is alive and well and is hosting a fascinating Talbot reincarnation next week. But first, on this day in 1792, John Frederick William Herschel was …

Mayday – Shifting Walls, Ephemeral Gates

4 May 2018: Here in Baltimore this week, the near-frost conditions of the last day of April have miraculously morphed into the warmth of May. We should celebrate that with some of Henry Talbot’s photographs. But first, two of our Research Affiliates have filled our pages the past three weeks with fascinating studies of their respective home towns …