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William Henry Fox Talbot — The Woodcutters
William Henry Fox Talbot

The Woodcutters

1845

Rural laborers are frozen in their daily work, representing Talbot's interest in documenting contemporary life through his revolutionary paper-based photographic process.

Medium
salted paper print from calotype negative

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William Henry Fox Talbot, The Woodcutters, 1845

Rural laborers are frozen in their daily work, representing Talbot's interest in documenting contemporary life through his revolutionary paper-based photographic process.

Medium
salted paper print from calotype negative
Year
1845
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Print, Photography, Atmospheric, Figures, Sepia Tone, 19th Century, Landscape, Historical, Nature, British

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art