Study Visit: Salt and Silver

Salt and Silver is the first exhibition in Britain devoted to salted paper prints, one of the earliest forms of photography. A uniquely British invention, unveiled by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839, salt prints spread across the globe, creating a new visual language of the modern moment.
The few salt prints that survive are seldom seen due to their fragility, and so this exhibition, a collaboration with the Wilson Centre for Photography, is a singular opportunity to see the rarest and best early photographs of this type in the world.

Join Robert Bloomfield on the 18 April at Tate Britain.
To reserve your place please email enquiries@oca.ac.uk
 
Image Credits: Featured: D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson, Newhaven fishermen, circa 1845© Wilson Centre for Photography
Jean-Baptiste Frénet, Horse and Groom, 1855© Wilson Centre for Photography