Stylized painting showing a photographer operating a large wooden bellows camera, set against a backdrop of draped reddish-brown fabric and abstract gray forms.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 60

"Lace in William Henry Fox Talbot and Antonio Bertoloni’s Album di Disegni Fotogenici"

Strobino, Francesca
2025
12 pages
11 illustrations
9.25 x 11.25 in
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 60 include texts on a ceramic figure of a Tolita-Tumaco community elder crafted in ancient Ecuador, an exemplary Hanukkah lamp made by an eighteenth-century Roman silversmith, and modernist painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Self-Portrait as a Photographer from 1924.

Album di disegni fotogenici, William Henry Fox Talbot  British, Salted paper prints
William Henry Fox Talbot
Sebastiano Tassinari
1839–40

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Strobino, Francesca. “Lace in William Henry Fox Talbot and Antonio Bertoloni’s Album Di Disegni Fotogenici.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 60 (December 2025): 148–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/739641.