Calotype / Salt Print
1841–1860Paper negatives yielding soft, warm prints. Talbot's invention — the ancestor of all modern photography.
Silver chloride on paper. Paper fiber diffuses light, creating soft edges. Warm tones from silver particles in paper matrix.
1 artist6 colors
Calotype Process
British
Invented by Fox Talbot. Unlike the daguerreotype, calotypes produce negatives — enabling multiple prints.
The paper fibers of the negative diffuse light, giving calotypes a soft, painterly quality that daguerreotypes lack.