Selfie #394

A calotype photograph being taken in Lacock Abbey, around 1842.  Talbot took several photographs of family, friends and servants at Lacock Abbey. Despite the spontaneous appearance of some of these images, they must have required exposures of several minutes.

[William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877). Aussi Viollet-le-Duc, Jean-Claude Carrière, Crumley, clic-clic la Saint-Renaud, la Saint-Ronald, des histoires de migrants, déjà, et nos fiançailles - juste une ivresse.]