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Homework #2: Food and Coffee in the Civil War

If you had a choice, which would you give up? Food? Or coffee? In class, we  looked at the photography of the Civil War and the difficulties of producing photographs during war, especially with the wet-plate collodion process. To help … Continue reading

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Talbot’s Lacock Abbey

In the early history of photography, we will discuss William Henry Fox Talbot’s photographic experiments and his development of the photogenic drawing and the calotype, experiments that he carried out Lacock Abbey. Today, his estate and the surrounding village belongs … Continue reading

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