A Photographic Truth
Photograph
1852-54 (photographed)
1852-54 (photographed)
| Artist/Maker |
Turner took out a licence to practice ‘calotype’ photography from William Henry Fox Talbot in 1848. The positive images were contact-printed from paper negatives. The negative (above) and its corresponding positive (below) are reunited here to illustrate this process. The pairing as you see them would not have been the photographer’s original intention for display. Although negatives were sometimes exhibited in their own right, showing positive prints was the norm.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | A Photographic Truth (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Calotype negative |
| Brief description | Photographic negative by Benjamin Brecknell Turner, 'A Photographic Truth', 1852-54, calotype negative |
| Physical description | Paper negative depicting a village scene reflected in a lake |
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| Gallery label | Photography Centre 2018-20:
Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815–94)
Hawkhurst Church, Kent (A Photographic Truth)
1852
Turner took out a licence to practice ‘calotype’ photography from William Henry Fox Talbot in 1848. The positive images were contact-printed from paper negatives. The negative (above) and its corresponding positive (below) are reunited here to illustrate this process. The pairing as you see them would not have been the photographer’s original intention for display. Although negatives were sometimes exhibited in their own right, showing positive prints was the norm.
Calotype negative; albumen print
Museum nos. RPS.1200-2018; PH.54-1982
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund |
| Credit line | The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Turner took out a licence to practice ‘calotype’ photography from William Henry Fox Talbot in 1848. The positive images were contact-printed from paper negatives. The negative (above) and its corresponding positive (below) are reunited here to illustrate this process. The pairing as you see them would not have been the photographer’s original intention for display. Although negatives were sometimes exhibited in their own right, showing positive prints was the norm. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | RPS.1200-2018 |
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| Record created | February 6, 2018 |
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