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Alan Santillo | all galleries >> Wiltshire with forays into Somerset 2003 and 2017 >> 2017 - Wiltshire with forays into Somerset > IMG_7527-Edit.jpg Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village - Lacock, Chippenham, Wiltshire - © A Santillo 2017
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IMG_7527-Edit.jpg Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village - Lacock, Chippenham, Wiltshire - © A Santillo 2017

A window into photographic history. On a hot sunny day in August 1835 William Henry Fox Talbot created the very first photographic negative of this window. This tiny image, hardly bigger than a postage stamp, is probably the most important artefact in photographic history.


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