Fox Talbot Photographer
By: Robert Lassam
Pg: 54
These "photogenic drawings" of a leaf immediately make me respond due to what I have been learning the past two years. Our photograms have been favorite projects of mine constructing negatives out of not only transparent material but also materials in shapes that we want all light the be blocked out. The image above reminds me of how experimental our medium really can be. Henry Fox Talbot discovering upon the negative form of an image was a great contribution to the world of photography. One of the works I recently produced used found material constructed in a way that when light shined through it it would produce an image. Similar concepts with much more advanced technology, my "negatives" were scanned in as negative film. Seeing an everyday object such as a leaf, or makeup, in the negative light allows us to play with our imagination and creativity. Henry Fox Talbot was the first step in experimenting with photograms showing us this ability to have the same image look and feel completely different in positive or negative. So today we have advanced digitally to create similar photograms.
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