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SUMMARY:Capturing time. William Henry Fox Talbot's universal scholarship a
 nd the common ground between Photography and the Antique - Mirjam Brusius
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CONTACT:T.S. Thompson
DESCRIPTION:William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) is now primarily remember
 ed as the pioneer of photography\, but his work ranged across the natural 
 sciences\, classical scholarship and Assyriology. In my talk I explore Tal
 bot's interest in photographic inventions in connection to his lifelong si
 gnificant scholarship in Archaeology\, Classics and Assyriology\, fields T
 albot studied in Cambridge and that are still largely unexplored by contem
 porary Talbot research.  I argue that examining Talbot's interest in the A
 ntique exposes opportunities to gain further understanding of his photogra
 phic achievements.  In phenomenological terms\, photography and archaeolog
 y have some substantial characteristics in common. Both disciplines attemp
 t to preserve fading objects. They keep them from falling into oblivion.  
 Talbot offers an exceptional case study to show how the two disciplines ha
 ve been closely linked to each other in practical terms\, ever since photo
 graphy was invented.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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