Bethany Berard is a visual culture researcher and teacher.
She received a PhD in Communication and Media Studies from Carleton University in 2024. Her current work includes projects on the significance of photos of/from Mars, a social history of the CCD sensor, and the development of an informational theory of photography. You can read more about her research here.
Talbot and I and The Art of Photogenic Drawing
studies in “the good eye” through history
Photographs by Henry Fox Talbot (1844) & Bethany Berard (2009; 2013; 2015)
How charming it would be if it were possible to cause these natural images to imprint themselves durably, and remain fixed upon the paper.
Henry Fox Talbot, 1834.
And why should it not be possible?