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Title: The Open Door
Date: before May 1844
Location: England
Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Process: salted paper print from paper negative
Note: Talbot was a polymath who invented the salted paper and calotype processes and contributed to the development of photography as an artistic medium. In the 1840s, his work on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure.
The image appears in The Pencil of Nature (1844-46), which features original salted paper prints from his calotype negatives.
Source and information: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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