As part of the 2025 Photo Oxford Festival historian Dr Rose Teanby will be talking about the life of Constance Talbot, wife of William Henry Fox Talbot. Recent research into artworks and photographs from the Bodleian and British Library Talbot collections throw a new light on her status as one of the earliest women photographers in Britain. Drawings from her family home in Derby, sketches at Lake Como and watercolours of Lacock Abbey show Constance's lifelong dedication to art. Re-creating her first documented photograph also brings a twenty-first century insight into the challenges she faced as an early photographer. Combining her preserved letters with artworks and photographs brings us closer to the truth about Constance Talbot's unique place in photographic history.
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist
Dr Rose Teanby
Wednesday 5. November at 1300-1400 (UTC)
£5 (in person); £2 (concessions and online)
Live: Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre ,The Bodleian Library, Oxford and Online
Book here: https://fienta.com/rose-teanby-talks-about-constance-talbot-early-photographer-and-lifelong-artist
Check out Photo Oxford Festival and other talks and events here: https://www.photooxford.org/home
Image: Portrait of Constance Talbot, from Bodleian Librararies, MS WHF Talbot photogr 27.
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