The Oriel Window Lacock Abbey
William Fox Talbot lived in Lacock Abbey from 1827 to 1877. Fox Talbot was a scientist and inventor who discovered many of the major techniques of photography, including the invention of photographic paper .Inside the Abbey is the Fox Talbot Museum, which has been made into the history of photography. It includes items from the early years of photography as well as special exhibitions. The 2007 BBC drama The Cranford Chronicles, was filmed in Lacock. For this production, the Sign of the Angel Hotel was used as Cranford’s pub – The Hearts of Oak – and the Red Lion Inn became the village shop. Other classic dramas filmed here include Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Emma (1996). More recently, it has featured in Downton Abbey and The White Princess. However it is best own as some of the sets for the Harry Potter films. The cloisters of Lacock Abbey were the setting for the Mirror of Erised and for the scene where Harry frees the house elf Dobby in the Chamber of Secrets. Rooms off the cloisters became classrooms, particularly for Professor Snape’s potions lessons. Some outdoor scenes for The Half Blood Prince were filmed in the village. Houses lived in by Professor Slughorn and by Harry Potter’s parents are also in Lacock.
The Decisive Moment
The famous image that defines 'The Decisive Moment' is on a half page spread. A man jumping from a ladder which is laying now on the ground, captured the moment before his foot hits the water. The Decisive Moment is a book is divided into two roughly equal sections and based on chronology with 1947 being the dividing year between the two. This happens to be the year Magnum was founded.
The Omaha Beach Negatives
The ten photographs taken by LIFE photographer Robert Capa of omaha beach record the moments immediately after assault troops from the US 16th Infantry Regiment have disembarked into thigh-high water. The first five photographs, which were likely taken from the ramp of the landing craft. Beyo Capa wrote in his wartime memoir, Slightly Out of Focus (1947), that he chose to land on Omaha Beach in the first wave with Easy Company, 16th Infantry Regiment (US Army). Since then, it has been widely assumed that this was correct. However, further examination of the photographs and documentary evidence suggests that he almost certainly landed at a later time and with a different unit. Further in is the shingle bank and seawall. This is where many troops are taking cover before advancing towards the ridge beyond.
Dr Edwin H Land
Edwin Herbert Land was born May 7, 1909 in Bridgeport, U.S. and died March 1, 1991, He was an American inventor and physicist whose who helped in the revolution of photography. Land became interested in polarized light while he was studying at Harvard University, Polarized light is when the rays of light all align. He Succeeded in 1932 with his experiments in which he aligned crystals of iodoquinine sulfate and implanted them into a plastic sheet. Land created the Polaroid J sheet which was a massive breakthrough in photography.
New Topographics
A label for a group of photographers who came to prominence in the 1970s and brought a new perspective to landscape photography that focused on an objective documentation of locations. Often, works labeled New Topographics also emphasized the relationship between man and nature through the documentation of industrial intrusions on land and scenes of suburban sprawl, motels, and parking lots. The label has its origins in a 1975 exhibition at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, NY. Key artists from the exhibit include Robert Adams, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, and Stephen Shore. The New Topographics were influential on much of contemporary photography, particularly Becher students like Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer, who became known as the "Dusseldorf School of Photography".
William Boyle and George Smith
Willard Boyle was born on the 19th of August in 1924. He was a Canadian Physicist and influencer for laser technology. George Smith, born May 10th in 1930, was an American Scientist. Boyle and Smith shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD). Wikipedia states that," A CCD is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. Under the control of an external circuit, each capacitor can transfer its electric charge to a neighboring capacitor. CCD sensors are a major technology used in digital imaging." Below are what Boyle and Smith look like.