La mansió de Fox Talbot / Fox Talbot home
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una càmera Ensign Commando fabricada el 1946; Kodak Ektar 100, revelat amb el kit C-41 de Tetenal.
La mansió de Lacock Abbey, al poble del mateix nom, al sud d'Anglaterra és un indret força especial. Com el seu nom indica, fins a la fi del monasticisme a Anglaterra, al s. XVI, era un convent catolic. A partir d'aquell moment fou comprat i rehabilitat com a mansió rural. De fora sembla el tipic palauet, però per dintre conserva bona part dels espais monastics d'estil gotic (però no l'església)
Si be en anys recents s'ha fet famós com un dels llocs on es va rodar Harry Potter, és molt més interessant per ser un dels llocs on s'inventà la fotografia. Dic un dels llocs perquè hi ha divesos llocs que ho poden dir, tant Paris mateix (daguerrotips) com Chalons-s.-Saone (heliografía).
Però fou aquí a Lacock Abbey on William Henry Fox Talbot, un ric terratinent britanic, va aconseguir el primer negatiu de la historia el 1835, i posteriorment ho perfeccionà cap al calotip, fotografia amb negatius de paper que es feu servir sobretot entre 1840 i 1880.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Fox_Talbot
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadia_de_Lacock
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Picture taken with an Ensign Commando camera made in 1946; Kodak Ektar 100, developed with the Tetenal C-41 kit.
The mansion of Lacock Abbey, in the village of the same name (Wiltshire) is a rather unique place. Especially for its photographic history.
As its name indicates, until the end of monasticism in England, in the XVI Century, it was a Catholic convent. From that moment it was bought and rehabilitated as a rural manor. From the outside it looks like a typical mansion, but inside it preserves a good part of the monastic spaces in the Gothic style (but not the church, which was razed)
If in recent years it has become famous as one of the places where Harry Potter was filmed (in those cloisters), it is much more interesting for being one of the places where photography was invented. I say one of the places because there are several places that can say it, both Paris itself (daguerreotype) and Chalons-s.-Saone (heliography). But here is all much more preserved as it was.
It was here at Lacock Abbey that William Henry Fox Talbot, a wealthy British landowner, obtained the first negative in history in 1835, and later perfected it into the calotype, paper negative photography, that was used mainly between 1840 and 1880 .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacock_Abbey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot
La mansió de Fox Talbot / Fox Talbot home
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una càmera Ensign Commando fabricada el 1946; Kodak Ektar 100, revelat amb el kit C-41 de Tetenal.
La mansió de Lacock Abbey, al poble del mateix nom, al sud d'Anglaterra és un indret força especial. Com el seu nom indica, fins a la fi del monasticisme a Anglaterra, al s. XVI, era un convent catolic. A partir d'aquell moment fou comprat i rehabilitat com a mansió rural. De fora sembla el tipic palauet, però per dintre conserva bona part dels espais monastics d'estil gotic (però no l'església)
Si be en anys recents s'ha fet famós com un dels llocs on es va rodar Harry Potter, és molt més interessant per ser un dels llocs on s'inventà la fotografia. Dic un dels llocs perquè hi ha divesos llocs que ho poden dir, tant Paris mateix (daguerrotips) com Chalons-s.-Saone (heliografía).
Però fou aquí a Lacock Abbey on William Henry Fox Talbot, un ric terratinent britanic, va aconseguir el primer negatiu de la historia el 1835, i posteriorment ho perfeccionà cap al calotip, fotografia amb negatius de paper que es feu servir sobretot entre 1840 i 1880.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Fox_Talbot
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadia_de_Lacock
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Picture taken with an Ensign Commando camera made in 1946; Kodak Ektar 100, developed with the Tetenal C-41 kit.
The mansion of Lacock Abbey, in the village of the same name (Wiltshire) is a rather unique place. Especially for its photographic history.
As its name indicates, until the end of monasticism in England, in the XVI Century, it was a Catholic convent. From that moment it was bought and rehabilitated as a rural manor. From the outside it looks like a typical mansion, but inside it preserves a good part of the monastic spaces in the Gothic style (but not the church, which was razed)
If in recent years it has become famous as one of the places where Harry Potter was filmed (in those cloisters), it is much more interesting for being one of the places where photography was invented. I say one of the places because there are several places that can say it, both Paris itself (daguerreotype) and Chalons-s.-Saone (heliography). But here is all much more preserved as it was.
It was here at Lacock Abbey that William Henry Fox Talbot, a wealthy British landowner, obtained the first negative in history in 1835, and later perfected it into the calotype, paper negative photography, that was used mainly between 1840 and 1880 .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacock_Abbey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot