Various Authors, Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860

Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860

Various Authors

Publisher
MACK
Year
2015
ISBN
9781910164167
Specifications
First edition
From the Wilson Centre for Photography
23.5 x 28 cm
196 pages
English

The first exhibition in Britain devoted to salted paper prints, one of the earliest forms of the medium. A uniquely British invention unveiled by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839, the salt print spread across the globe and created a new visual language of the modern moment: the technique turned still lifes, portraits, landscapes and scenes of daily life into pictures with a specific aesthetic, a soft and luxurious effect.

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