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The Haystack (1844) by Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot The Haystack  April 1844 salted paper print Printed by Nicolaas Henneman 19 x 22.9 cm; image: 16.4 x 21 cm Purchased 1975 National Gallery of Canada (no. 33487.31)  source: National Gallery of Canada plate from THE PENCIL OF NATURE , London, 1844 by Fox Talbot read it here: Project Gutenberg download it here

Bayard, the "forgotten pioneer"

[Windmills, Montmartre], 1839 Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801–1887) Direct positive print 3 3/8 x 3 15/16 in. (8.5 x 10 cm) Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005 (2005.100.32) source: Metmuseum  Hippolyte Bayard French, 1847 Salt print 6 1/2 x 4 13/16 in. source: Getty Hippolyte Bayard: Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man, 1840 (Direct Positive Print) 1840 Hippolyte Bayard ’s (20 January 1807 – 14 May 1887) role as a pioneer of photography, both as a photographer and as inventor, was overshadowed by Daguerre’ s support by the scientific establishment of his time and by the French government’s monetary rewards for his public disclosure of the Daguerreotype process.  Bayard’s commentary of “protest” on his situation as a “forgotten” photographer and pioneer of photography is expressed in one of his most famous and intriguing images the Self-portrait as a drowned man - drowned by indifference and neglect, as he writes to explain the photograph