Angels at the window

There is this person who posted an image of what could be the first ever photograph IN THE WORLD.and it is a sort of photogram of a small leaf.  and she posted the link to the article. thank you rachel whoever you are.

       ”The image is a “photogenic drawing”—a process that Talbot popularized after 1839, as Schaaf notes in his essay. “Following Talbot’s instructions, an experimenter had only to take a sheet of writing paper, soak it in a weak solution of common table salt, and then brush it with silver nitrate. Light sensitive silver chloride would be formed within the fibers of the paper. The light sensitive paper would then be placed in the sun under a leaf or other object and within minutes the energy of the light would reduce the silver chloride to tiny particles of silver, appearing red or purple. The image was a negative, of course, for where the object blocked the light, nothing happened, but where the light reached around or through the object, the paper darkened.” Unless fixed, such light drawings would be destroyed by further exposure to the sun, which is why much of this type of material does not exist today.”

 

I need to try this at home. It is right for my life.