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26/5/2000

Specimens and Marvels

NMPFT, Bradford

Specimens and Marvels explores the impact of early photography through the pioneering work of William Henry Fox Talbot. By tracing his ideas and experiments, the exhibition explores how the new invention of photography was used in its first decade - a period in which many of photography's future applications were realised or anticipated. Talbot.

On 25 January 1839, WHF Talbot unveiled his photogenic drawings - a process by which he could record an accurate image of the world by exploiting the action of light on sensitised paper - more significantly, innumerable copies could be produced from the image. This process provided the backbone of modern photography.

Specimens and Marvels is the largest exhibition of Talbot's work to date and offers a unique opportunity to explore the dawn of photography. Talbot's work will be displayed alongside that of Louis Jaques Mande Daguerre, Sir JFW Herschel, Anna Atkins and Calvert Richard Jones.

National Museum of Photography, Film & Television
Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 1NQ
Tel +44 (0)1274 20 20 30
Fax +44 (0)1274 72 31 55

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