SALT & SILVER--Early PHOTOGRAPHY--1840-1860 (post no.158)

The new exhibition dedicated to the earliest form of photography – salted paper prints that were taken between 1840 and 1860 — is set to open at London’s Tate Britain Museum. William Henry Fox Talbot unveiled this unique photography process in 1839. This beautiful collection of images, curated in association with the Wilson Centre for photography, charts the infancy of the art form. Join us as we look at a selection of the amazing historic images from the show.

2....HILL AND ADAMSON

Newhaven Fishermen (Alexander Rutherford, William Ramsay & John Liston), c. 1845

3...JEAN-BAPTISTE FRENET

Thought to be a Mother and Son, c. 1855

Photograph, salted paper print from a collodion negative transferred from glass to paper support 

4.....WILLIAM FOX TALBOT

The Photographer’s Daughter, Ela Theresa Talbot, 1843-44

Photograph, salted paper print from a paper negative.

5.....JEAN-BAPTISTE FRENET

Horse and Groom, c.1855

Photograph, salted paper print from a glass plate negative

6......JEAN-BAPTISTE FRENET

Madame Frénet et fillettes, c.1855

Photograph, salted paper print from a collodion negative transferred from glass to paper support 

7.....JAMES ROBERTSON AND FELICE BEATO

Pyramids at Gizeh, 1857

Photograph, salted paper print from a glass plate negative

8.....JOHN BEASLY GREENE

El Assasif, Porte de Granit Rose, No. 2, Thébes, 1854

Photograph, salted paper print from a waxed plate negative

9.....WILLIAM FOX TALBOT

Nelson's Column Under Construction, Trafalgar Square, 1844

Photograph, salted paper print from a paper negative

10.......EUGENE PIOT

Le Parthénon de l’Acropole d’Athens, 1852

Photograph, salted paper print from a paper negative