Photogenic drawings


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The very first experiments of the 1830s. Talbot’s "sun-pictures" were created by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper, resulting in ghostly, silhouetted forms that mark the true birth of the medium.

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1	Improving content on photographic techniques
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2	Early paper prints and their confusing terminology
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3	Examples of photogenic drawings
Photographers
4	Henry Fox Talbot: Photogenic drawings
5	Henry Fox Talbot: Photogenic engravings
6	Henry Fox Talbot: The Bertoloni Album
7	Johann Carl Enslen: Photogenic drawings

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