18 November 2011
lacock abbey
I am extremely excited to announce that I will be teaching Talbot’s calotype process at his very own house, the place where paper photography really began… Lacock Abbey From the workshops’ website:
After much demand, William Henry Fox Talbot’s original Calotype process is returning to Lacock Abbey. Dan Estabrook, a modern master and artist using Talbot’s original process will instruct a small group of students in making calotype negatives and the salted paper prints.
Roger Watson, curator of the Fox Talbot Museum will give a short lecture and introduction on the invention of photography and the work of William Henry Fox Talbot at Lacock Abbey.
This four day course will give participants the opportunity to work closely with Dan and learn various techniques and manipulations within this rare process. Participants will learn Talbot’s original formula but also some of the chemical modifications which rapidly developed after the announcement of the process in 1840. Students will be introduced to the historically common practice of pencil retouching on paper negatives to achieve a desired result, artistic or otherwise. The final day of the workshop will consist of salted paper printing from their calotype negatives.
Roger Watson, curator of the Fox Talbot Museum will give a short lecture and introduction on the invention of photography and the work of William Henry Fox Talbot at Lacock Abbey.
This four day course will give participants the opportunity to work closely with Dan and learn various techniques and manipulations within this rare process. Participants will learn Talbot’s original formula but also some of the chemical modifications which rapidly developed after the announcement of the process in 1840. Students will be introduced to the historically common practice of pencil retouching on paper negatives to achieve a desired result, artistic or otherwise. The final day of the workshop will consist of salted paper printing from their calotype negatives.
All info here...
I gotta say, I like Google’s homepage today, done in celebration of Daguerre’s birth.