Capturing The Light
Event Information
Description
Part of the 2019 St Andrews Photography Festival
Type of Event: Talk
Roger Watson, curator of The Fox Talbot Museum and author of Capturing The Light gives a presentation on the two very different men, Henry Talbot from Wiltshire and Louis Daguerre from Paris. In 1839 these two men, presented very different solutions to one of the major scientific questions of the day: how do you capture light and affix it as an image?