[Street with Lamp Post and Wine Shop]
In 1841 William Henry Fox Talbot patented the first negative-positive photographic process, which formed the basis of photography until the digital age. The photographer placed a piece of paper coated in a solution of light-sensitive silver salts in the camera, exposed it to sunlight, and developed the latent image to produce a negative that could then be printed as multiple positives. Any imperfections in the negative were reproduced in the print. Here the negative’s missing corner was eliminated by cropping. A modern gas lamppost anchors this image of a typical street corner in a British village.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Street with Lamp Post and Wine Shop]
- Artist: Unknown (British)
- Date: 1850s
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 6 7/8 × 7 13/16 in. (17.5 × 19.8 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.1098.3
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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