As part of the Bicentenary of photography, Drawing Lab, a laboratory for experimentation and the dissemination of contemporary drawing, is putting together a group exhibition highlighting the links between photography and drawing.
While Nicéphore Niépce invented photography in 1826, his contemporary Henry Fox Talbot also believed he had discovered, with photography, a “loyal pencil”, capable of capturing and naturally fixing the writing of light and shadow. He also called photograms “photogenic drawings”, sensitive impressions obtained by direct contact, the very beginnings of photography.
