Calotype / Salt Print

1841–1860

Paper 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.

Pigments: Silver

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