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08/24/2014 03:49:45 PM · #1 |
If anyone finds themselves in South West England in the next few months, you might consider detouring to Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire. In addition to the location providing photographic opportunities around every corner, it is the home of the Fox Talbot museum which is dedicated to photography. I dropped by there today, having not been for a few years, and came across an exhibition celebrating 175 years of photography; t is running throughout 2014.
William Fox Talbot lived at Lacock Abbey in the 1800s and was a scientist and inventor. Apparently, whilst on his honeymoon, he realised he would never be a decent painter and so began his quest to create images directly from real life. He is credited with creating the first negative (1835) and, subsequently, the ability to make multiple copies of the same picture. His contemporary/rival was Daguerre: who came up with the ability to 'fix' high quality (for the time) pictures but couldn't make copies. There become a sort of rivalry between them and the scientific race was on to create multiple copies of fixed images. The rest can all be found on the web!
The exhibition was fab: in addition to lots of information and examples of various techniques, there were cameras galore! Ranging from camera obscures to 'modern' nikons and canons, including a gold plated version from the sixties.........
Well worth a visit.
Anyway, enough of that. If you're interested in reading more about Lacock, here might be a good place to start:
//www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lacock/visitor-information/article-1355821041895/
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08/26/2014 10:03:54 AM · #2 |
Sounds like a great experience, and I would love to visit... there's just the matter of that darned pond in the way, LOL!
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