Sculpture Review Winter 2005 Click here or on picture for enlargement Page 10 When Sculpture First Posed for a Photograph by Hans P. Kraus Jr. A The Bust of Patroclus is one of the earliest sculptures ever photographed. William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800–1877) announced his invention of photography in January 1839. Among his first experiments with this new medium were exercises with modeling and light. Because this primitive process was too slow to use live models, his first test subjects included sculptures. In November 1839, Talbot made the earliest dated negative of his plaster cast of the Bust of Patroclus. He continued to photograph the bust, making nearly fifty more negatives over the next five years...		Photography and Sculpture
			Feature Article: When Sculpture First Posed for a Photograph by Hans P. Kraus Jr. Sculpture Through the Lens by Ellen B. Cutler A Practical Synergy Two Photographers Specialize in Shooting Sculpture by Wolfgang Mabry Fratelli Alinari: First Photographs of Florentine Sculpture by Maria Possenti Light on Stone: Greek and Roman Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Elizabeth J. Milleker and Joseph Coscia Jr. Sculpture in the Age of Photography by Martina Droth Current issue: Winter 2005