British Calotypes at the National Gallery

National Gallery of Art
Washington DC
Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives 1840-1860

"Contrary to accounts provided in standard histories, this exhibition demonstrates that "calotypes"—photographs made from paper negatives—flourished during the 1840s and 1850s. The exhibition follows the progress of the movement from the invention of the process by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839 to the Great Exhibition of 1851, where the aesthetic possibilities of the calotype were amply illustrated, to its flowering in the years immediately thereafter."

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[image from NGA online 'exhibition feature' – click on 'more' above.]