Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, 9 April 2001

Lacock Abbey was the home of one of the pioneers of photography, William Henry Fox-Talbot, who was locked in a race to ‘invent’ photography with Louis Daguerre in the late 1830’s. He’s considered the inventor of the photographic negative, and one of his first images was made in a room near this vaulted room. Just before I made this image, filming had been taking place in Lacock Abbey for the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Inford b&w negative film, pigment print

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8x10 and 11x14-inch (20×25cm and 28×36cm) prints are open editions.

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Reference No. 2001-0409-10