Photo of William Henry Fox Talbot, View of the Boulevards of Paris, 1843

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Description	British photographer
Date of birth/death	11 February 1800	17 September 1877
Location of birth/death	Melbury, Dorset, England	Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England
Work location	London
Authority control	: Q299565 VIAF: 54325833 ISNI: 0000 0001 2026 0414 ULAN: 500021449 LCCN: n79138724 NLA: 35538270 WorldCat

Title

View of the Boulevards of Paris

Description

English: In the text accompanying this image, the second plate in William Henry Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature, Talbot commented upon the egalitarian nature of photography: "the instrument chronicles whatever it sees, and certainly would delineate a chimney-pot or a chimney-sweeper with the same impartiality as it would the Apollo of Belvedere." Each print in the book, the first commercially published book to be illustrated with photographs, was an original photograph, tipped in, or glued, to its page. On a spring afternoon in Paris, Talbot photographed the street from his hotel, sufficiently high up to provide a sweeping view of the city's spiky rooftops. The streets have just been wetted down to reduce the dust stirred up from the unpaved road. Although the calotype shortened exposure times, the ghost images of carriages that moved on the boulevard during the exposure betray the still-lengthy exposure.

Date

1843 -05

Medium

Salt print

Dimensions

Image: 16.4 x 21.4 cm (6 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.) Sheet: 18.7 x 23.2 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Current location

Getty Center

	Native name	Getty Center
	Parent institution	J. Paul Getty Museum
	Location	Los Angeles
	Coordinates	34° 04′ 39″ N, 118° 28′ 30″ W
	Established	1997
	Website	https://www.getty.edu/museum/
	Authority control	: Q29247 VIAF: 133364221 GND: 10081052-4 SUDOC: 050172751 BNF: 13340183q

Accession number

84.XM.478.8

Inscriptions

Inscr. LA2 vo. print in ink by Ostroff; inscr. vo. print in pencil in a l unknown hand: "9".

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The Getty Center, Object 46633

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