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<\/a>In the late eighteen-thirties, experiments in photography took place in France and Britain. Among the earliest images produced from these experiments were by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot. In January 1839, Daguerre created his named photographic process, the Daguerreotype – an image on a mirrored silver surface that appeared either\u00a0positive or negative depending on the angle. However, each Daguerreotype was its own unique image that\u00a0could not be replicated.\u00a0The future of the photographic medium’s reproduction lay with Fox-Talbot’s Calotype. It was able to easily record buildings and sculpture, and then reproduce these images from a “negative” process using silver iodide applied to paper.<\/p>\n The differences between Fox Talbot\u2019s scientific focus versus Daguerre\u2019s arrangement of objects to create “art” would initiate\u00a0the debate\u00a0between art and science that continue well into\u00a0the twentieth century. The camera demonstrated the difference between the interpretation of nature and its actual documentation, or one could say between the creative arts and the mechanical.2<\/a><\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n For the public, however, these experiments were mesmerizing. Photograph seemed nothing short of miraculous in its\u00a0ability to record reality.3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birth of a Medium “Every chip of stone and stain is there.” 1 In the late eighteen-thirties, experiments in photography took place in France and…<\/p>\n![\"](\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/arth310brown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2017\/03\/foxtalbot-300x245.jpg\")
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