shy lady
Registered: January 2009
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This is the window in the south gallery of Lacock Abbey where Fox Talbot created the first negative.
Beginning in 1834, Talbot experimented with a process which he called photogenic drawing: coating drawing paper with salt solution and after it had dried, adding a solution of silver nitrate. By placing a leaf, or fern, or a piece of lace, on the paper's surface and exposing it to the sun, he obtained an image.
In August 1835, Talbot made the earliest known surviving photographic negative using a camera, a small photogenic drawing of the latticed window in the south gallery of Lacock Abbey.
Not a brilliant photo but was taken without the flash.
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