Exploring the irresistible allure of the garden 🌻
, and the flora that grows in it? Even William Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneer of the earliest experiments investigating the capacity of light-sensitive silver salts to record images, opted first to capture the plant species he found around him. When Talbot went on establish the earliest popular techniques for using negatives to create positive prints, he refused to take credit for their composition, insisting instead that they were made “by Nature’s hand”.
a 2015 exhibition charting the evolution of horticulture in photography over the centuries that followed Talbot’s early work. Happily, the exhibition has now been expanded and immortalised with the help of Sarah Anne McNear, in a spectacular new Aperture-published book.
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