
Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860
- 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.