A Cornucopia of Calotypes

28 Sep 2018: Guest post by Brian Liddy Welcome to this year’s calotype birthday celebration. It is reassuring to know that the Talbot catalogue raisonné will continue to be freely available online long after we have added the last image to the website at the end of this year. However, this may be the last chance we have …

Doubting Talbot

21 Sep 2018: All of us here on the Talbot project are proud to be able to say that there has been a blog dedicated to Talbot and his circle ever since the project officially began on 15 May 2015. The vast majority of almost 200 posts have been written by the project director, Professor Larry Schaaf, but …

Happy Family photographs

14 Sep 2018: There’s a pleasing symmetry to this week’s blog. In a way it mirror’s last week’s blog on paper photographs by a photographer better known for his daguerreotypes. Conversely, this week’s blog concerns daguerreotype portraits of a photographer better known for his photographs on paper. Our guest author this week is Jason Wright. Jason is a …

Claudet’s Talbotype (or Calotype) Portraits

7 Sep 2018: Now that the days are shorter, and the nights are drawing in, it is time to put the Summer Pleasure posts away and return to larger portions about Talbot and his work. Perhaps this is the blog equivalent of moving from summer salads to autumnal comfort food. Our first big helping of the season comes …