-discussion] first image of a photograph?
As I understand the article, Anna Atkins used Talbots photogenic
(shadowgraph) process, this really only gives a outline of
the article placed on sensitive paper. This still leaves
Talbots book to be the first to provide photographs as
recognisable
Ellis replied:
Anna Atkins used Talbots photogenic
(shadowgraph) process, this really only gives a outline of the article
placed on sensitive paper. This still leaves Talbots book to be the first to
provide photographs as recognisable images.
This is Pandora's photographic box we are
Regarding John Ptak's post - I don't know the answer but my first impulse
was to access Robert Leggat's 'History of Photography'
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
a fantastic resource - there may be additional clues there.
I too was under the misapprehension that Fox Talbots 'Pencil of Nature'
