Deel van de gevel van het Musée du Louvre te Parijs, gezien vanaf het Place du Carrousel before 1905

This photogenic drawing of the Musée du Louvre in Paris was made by William Henry Fox Talbot. I imagine Talbot in the Place du Carrousel, setting up his camera, thinking about light, shadow, and the weight of history. His process involved soaking paper in silver nitrate and then exposing it in a camera obscura. It was a delicate dance with chemistry and light. Think about the softness of this early photographic process—the way the building emerges like a memory. It's almost like an echo of a dream, isn’t it? On the left, you can see a faint print of the same image. Perhaps this was Talbot experimenting with different exposures. The soft focus creates a ghostly effect and offers a different way of seeing and experiencing this iconic building. Painters and photographers are always in dialogue, aren’t they? Each medium teaches the other about seeing and how to represent the world around us.