Floris Neusüss (made in collaboration with Renate Heyne)
‘Homage to Talbot: The Latticed Window, Lacock Abbey, 2010’
2010 (first made in 1978; new version commissioned for this exhibition)
Dye destruction print photograms
Width 315 cm x height 265 cm
Collection of the artist
© Courtesy of Floris Neusüss

This window at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, was the subject of the very first photographic negative, made by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835. After covering the interior of the window with photographic paper at night, Neusüss then exposed the paper by shining a light from outside. The resulting photogram recreates the subject of Talbot’s original small negative, but life size.

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William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800–1877)
Descriptive Title [The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]
Date probably 1835