Bethany Berard is a visual culture researcher and teacher.
She received a PhD in Communication and Media Studies from Carleton University in 2024. She is currently the project coordinator of The Digital Life of the Artist at Western University. Her current research looks at the development of visual certainty and photographic history, and the intersection of photorealism and visual AI generated images. You can read more about her current 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?