William Henry Fox Talbot
Lace
1845
MediumSalted paper print (photogram)
Dimensions 6 1/2 x 8 3/4" (16.5 x 22.3 cm)
William Henry Fox Talbot, Lace, was first published in Talbot's The Pencil of Nature, 1844.
To make this picture, Talbot laid a piece of lace on chemically sensitized paper and allowed the light of the sun gradually to fix its negative image precisely, down to the smallest fold or imperfection. This simple operation had never been possible before photography was invented.
Talbot's Lace is not merely a copy of unprecedented ease and fidelity. It is also a picture, which transposed the lace from the realm of objects to the realm of pictures, where it has enjoyed a new and unpredictable life.
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