(2) These initiatives would seem to spur Helen Groth's and Ivan Kreilkamp's shared fascination with Victorian poets' immersion in a culture whose chronology coincided with hugely influential advances in technology, such as the
calotype and the photograph.
William Henry Fox Talbot coined "
calotype" in 1840 for his developed-paper negative, which led to the first practical method of negative-positive printing in photography.
When Prevost returned to New York, he traded his brush for a camera and began experimenting with the
calotype process, a waxed-paper process that he introduced to America.
Although somewhat similar effects had been achieved before -- the
calotype (Talbotype) could also soften the image by reducing detail to some extent -- Stieglitz was among the first to realize that one could attack 'the photographic', as it had hitherto been conceived (the 'documentary,' [34]), by leaving room for the idea that it could be transformed into a projection of the mind.
1841 - William Henry Fox Talbot patents the
Calotype, a negative-positive photo process.
The collection comprises approximately 850 photographic prints (mainly salted paper), 230
Calotype paper negatives and 160 Collodion glass negatives.
2) evokes the precision of detail that Ruskin valued in the daguerreotype, a quality not achievable in the softer medium of the
calotype (a paper-based form of photography that emerged in the 1840s as a competitor to Louis Daguerre's metallic process).
King-Tenison would have known of
calotype photography pioneered in the 19th century in this country by William Fox Talbot, where a negative could be used to make a number of positive prints on paper.
(20) A
calotype image of 'Kitchen Hut, Gnarkeet Station, Port Phillip' taken by squatter Robert Tennant before 1853 is in the collection of the Edinburgh
Calotype Club.
The view of the stable secured by Morell with his 4 x 5 over the course of an eight-hour open-shutter session is the same one Fox Talbot captured in 1840 for his first chemically developed
calotype print, Combining modern technology and old-fashioned optics, Morell creates an engaging document that blurs past and present, inside and outside--a romantic work filled with an awe of scientific inquiry.