Between two photographs: 1844’s The Haystack and 2017’s The Charcoal Kiln / Mohammad Firdaus Azman ... [et al.]

• Main Authors: Azman, Mohammad Firdaus, Padil, Md Nagib, Ibrahim, Khairul Anuar, Mohd Rafee, Mohd Radzuan
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Applied photography
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/81545/1/81545.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/81545/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

On his country estate at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire in April 1844, William Henry Fox Talbot (Fig.1) set up a camera filled with light sensitive paper and photographed a haystack. A hay knife can be seen high in the stack to the left of the leaning ladder, and the blocks are being chopped from the top...