{"id":12306,"date":"2018-08-08T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2018-08-07T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:59:48","slug":"salt-and-silver-1840-1860-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/salt-and-silver-1840-1860-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt and Silver 1840 &#8211; 1860 Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12309\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/76D52B26-634F-48D7-BEFE-379C2C4304F6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12309\" class=\"wp-image-12309 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/76D52B26-634F-48D7-BEFE-379C2C4304F6-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salt Prints c 1840-1860<br \/>Yale Center for British Art<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. We often see and hear about the daguerreotype process as it was common and free throughout the world except in England where a licence had to be purchased. This exhibition celebrates the British salt prints of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/historic_figures\/fox_talbot_william_henry.shtml\">Fox Talbot<\/a>\u00a0process. The narrator of the video, <a href=\"https:\/\/history.yale.edu\/news\/chitra-ramalingam-talks-history-photography\">Chitra Ramalingam<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/britishart.yale.edu\">Yale Center for British Art<\/a> shows a selection of the prints on display (June 28th to September 9th) but doesn&#8217;t identify the photographer other than to state some were taken by the earliest woman photographer on record. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-us-canada-45024098\/see-some-of-the-world-s-earliest-photographs\">video was posted to the BBC web site<\/a> a couple pf days ago on August 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Take a peek at these salt paper prints. The prints have proven to be very durable since first printed &#8211; a tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Fox_Talbot\">William Henry Fox Talbot&#8217;s<\/a> process which was perfected a couple of years \u00a0before the daguerreotype but only announced to the world a few weeks after the daguerreotype on January 31st, 1839.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Daguerreotype was announced to a startled world on January 6th, 1839. While Talbot&#8217;s process is less contrasty and has lower resolution, it mimics the glass-plate and film era with its negatives and contact printed positives &#8211; one negative, limitless positive prints. Modern day digital technology creates a positive colour image which can also be printed or electronically reproduced in limitless numbers. And is far easier and faster to capture, <em>develop<\/em>, and print or duplicate electonically.<\/p>\n<p>Many fine books are available today for further reading. Consider the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1993\/02\/27\/arts\/beaumont-newhall-a-historian-of-photography-is-dead-at-84.html\">late Beaumont Newhall<\/a> \u00a0edited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Photography-Essays-Illustrated-Readings-History\/dp\/0870703854\">Photography: Essays &amp; Images<\/a>. In \u00a0this book Newhall publishes many pivotal documents (translated if necessary). I bought a paperback copy in December, 1980 for $18.50 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whsmithplc.co.uk\">W H Smith<\/a> who have since closed shop in Canada. My thanks to PHSC member Russ Forfar for emailing me about this wonderful exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. We often see and hear about the daguerreotype process as it was common and free throughout the world except in England where a licence had to be purchased. This exhibition celebrates the British salt prints of the\u00a0Fox Talbot\u00a0process. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/salt-and-silver-1840-1860-exhibition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[336,105,304,74,1572,58,2121,2120,2118,2119],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-bbc","tag-digital","tag-exhibit","tag-exhibition","tag-fox-talbot","tag-history","tag-negative","tag-positive","tag-salted-prints","tag-yale-center-for-british-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12318,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions\/12318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}