Ombres a la foscor / Shadows in the dark

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Als jardins de Lacock Abbey hi ha una molt interessant i divertida camera obscura gegant, gran com una furgoneta. S'hi pot entrar, i a dintre, veure la magia original de la optica. Hi ha un objectiu a la paret, mostrant la vista de la mansió. Una tela blanca situada al mig del espai permet veure la imatge més o menys enfocada. Ah, i invertida i en moviment! Penseu que això era el que veien molts pintors i aficionats a les curiositats ja des de la edat mitjana, tant en versions grans d'habitació, com en caixes més portatils.

ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambra_obscura

La mansió de Lacock Abbey, al poble del mateix nom, al sud d'Anglaterra és un indret força especial. Com el seu nom indica, fins a la fi del monasticisme a Anglaterra, al s. XVI, era un convent catolic. A partir d'aquell moment fou comprat i rehabilitat com a mansió rural. De fora sembla el tipic palauet, però per dintre conserva bona part dels espais monastics d'estil gotic (però no l'església)

Si be en anys recents s'ha fet famós com un dels llocs on es va rodar Harry Potter, és molt més interessant per ser un dels llocs on s'inventà la fotografia. Dic un dels llocs perquè hi ha divesos llocs que ho poden dir, tant Paris mateix (daguerrotips) com Chalons-s.-Saone (heliografía).

Però fou aquí a Lacock Abbey on William Henry Fox Talbot, un ric terratinent britanic, va aconseguir el primer negatiu de la historia el 1835, i posteriorment ho perfeccionà cap al calotip, fotografia amb negatius de paper que es feu servir sobretot entre 1840 i 1880.

ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Fox_Talbot

ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotip

ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadia_de_Lacock

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In the gardens of Lacock Abbey there's a giant camera obscura, large as a van. You could enter it and, in the dark, see the projected image of the outside seen through a lens in the wall. A white cloth helps to see the focused image: upside down, of course. Imagine how magic it was before we managed to fix these ever changing images. Henry Fox Talbot did exactly that!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura

The mansion of Lacock Abbey, in the village of the same name (Wiltshire) is a rather unique place. Especially for its photographic history.

As its name indicates, until the end of monasticism in England, in the XVI Century, it was a Catholic convent. From that moment it was bought and rehabilitated as a rural manor. From the outside it looks like a typical mansion, but inside it preserves a good part of the monastic spaces in the Gothic style (but not the church, which was razed)

If in recent years it has become famous as one of the places where Harry Potter was filmed (in those cloisters), it is much more interesting for being one of the places where photography was invented. I say one of the places because there are several places that can say it, both Paris itself (daguerreotype) and Chalons-s.-Saone (heliography). But here is all much more preserved as it was.

It was here at Lacock Abbey that William Henry Fox Talbot, a wealthy British landowner, obtained the first negative in history in 1835, and later perfected it into the calotype, paper negative photography, that was used mainly between 1840 and 1880 .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacock_Abbey

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotype

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Taken on: August 2, 2022

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