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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Karin Andreasson

William Henry Fox Talbot's Open Door - picture of the day

The Open Door, 1844
The Open Door by William Henry Fox Talbot, April 1844, salt print from a calotype negative. This photograph from Talbot's series The Pencil of Nature, shows the influence of Dutch genre painting on his photography. Unlike earlier photographs of his home at Lacock Abbey, which showed its architectural splendor, this image focuses on the everyday. The picturesque composition of broom, bridle and lantern around the stable door, is also a study in light and shadow, interior and exterior
Illustration: Photograph: William Henry Fox Talbot/The Royal Photographic Society/Getty Images
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