RE: [pinhole-discussion] first image of a photograph?

2003-11-23 Thread Jason Schlauch 
The article below discusses Atkins' contribution as the producer of the
first published cyanotype photograms, as well as Talbot's
_The_Pencil_of_Nature_:
http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa060302a.htm

There is also an incredibly thorough discussion of the calotype process:
http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa052002a.htm

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 As I understand the article, Anna Atkins used Talbots photogenic
 (shadowgraph) process, this really only gives a outline of 
 the article placed on sensitive paper. This still leaves 
 Talbots book to be the first to provide photographs as 
 recognisable images.
   Ellis
 
 
  Regarding John Ptak's post - I don't know the answer but my first 
  impulse was to access Robert Leggat's 'History of Photography' 
  http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
  a fantastic resource - there may be additional clues there.
  I too was under the misapprehension that Fox Talbots 'Pencil of 
  Nature'
 was
  the first photographically illustrated publication - not so 
 it seems, 
  go
 see
  significant people: ATKINS, Anna
  Ray
 
 
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Re: [pinhole-discussion] first image of a photograph?

2003-11-23 Thread Ray Beckett 
Ellis replied:
Anna Atkins used Talbots photogenic
(shadowgraph) process, this really only gives a outline of the article
placed on sensitive paper. This still leaves Talbots book to be the first to
provide photographs as recognisable images.

This is Pandora's photographic box we are lifting the lid on Ellis  - It all
comes down to how inclusive one's definition of  what a 'photograph' is.
I'm totally in awe of Anna Atkin's remarkable achievement - to print and
publish a book, photographically illustrated with 424 photogram-cyanotype
images in 1843.
Ray