#tourscathedral

[parisfind]

Boy lights a #candle in the #Cathédrale #SaintGatien #tourscity #tourscathedral (at Tours Cathedral)

[agnesgarf]

Time to go back. 🚂 🚊🚂🚊 #tours #igerstours #cathedrale #cathedraledetours #tourscathedral #eglise #church #sunset #tramonto #coucherdesoleil #cettesemainesurinstagram #merveillesdefrance #france_focus_on #geo_plc #commcam (à Tours Cathedral)

[notinnewhall]

Peter Wickens Fry (1795-1860), who worked as a London solicitor, was a pioneering English amateur photographer. He apparently experimented with photogenic drawing before Talbot developed the calotype process in 1841. In 1847 he established the Calotype Club with twelve other amateurs involved in the early paper negative process which met once or twice a month at Fry's home. It was renamed the Royal Photographic Club in 1848. In the early 1850s, Fry worked with Frederick Scott Archer, assisting him in the early experiments of the wet collodion process, and was also active in helping Roger Fenton to set up the Royal Photographic Society in 1853. He exhibited eleven photographs, including this one, at the 1852 Recent Specimens of Photography exhibition at the Society Of Arts in London, which is considered to be the first public exhibition in the UK solely devoted to photography. . Peter Wickens Fry - Cathedral at Tours, France, 1852,  salted paper print from a calotype negative, 6 3/4 in x 7 1.2 in, The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2013.790. . #peterwickensfry #calotype #royalphotographicsociety #paper negative #tourscathedral #historyofphotography #photographyhistory #notinnewhall #19thcenturyphotography