William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77), who is the well-known inventor of photography (calotype process), had a taste for landscape. The idea of photography came to Talbot while attempting to sketch the landscape of Lake Como (Italy) with a camera obscura. Haunting images of landscape was one of motives of Talbot’s invention of photography.
In this paper, I try to put Talbot’s works in the cultural context of this day. His taste for landscape reflected the trend of “The Picturesque”, that was the mode of viewing landscape in 18th century. On the other hand, his view of nature was similar to the 19th Romantic artists.
In my opinion, his works provide clues to the understanding of landscape-photography and to the accepting environment by photography.
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