House & Home
Mar 10, 2020
2 minutes
—The Editors
n 1835, William Henry Fox Talbot used his new invention to make a photographic image of his own residence, Lacock Abbey, in England, proclaiming it to be “the first instance on record, of a house having painted its own portrait.” Since then, through myriad revolutions in technologies, the forms and goings-on of
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