#talbotype

Portrait of a young woman identified as Miss Jeanne taken by Belgian photographer Louis Pierre Theophile Dubois de Nehaut, c. 1854-1856.

Frederick Langenheim Looking at Talbotypes, 

about 1849 - 1851

William Langenheim  

“The first photograph a man contemplated [...] must have seemed to him to resemble exactly certain paintings; [...] he knew, however, that he was nose-to-nose with a mutant; [...] his consciousness posited the object encountered outside of any analogy, like the ectoplasm of “what-had-been”: neither image nor reality, a new being, really: a reality one can no longer touch.”

Camera Lucida

Calotype portrait of a group having tea at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, England, August 17, 1843. By William Henry Fox Talbot.

[Above is an example of Dan Estabrook's Calotypes and an example of his commercial/editorial work]

So for my Alternative Process class I was told you choose one Alt Process photographer and tell why I liked their work. I flipped through the book I was told to get and found Dan Estabrook. What first caught my eye was that the picture was an oval and I had talking in class about maybe making my photo circular.