This unusual book grew out of Linda McCartney’s fascination with nineteenth-century photographic printing processes and in particular with the technique of sun printing developed by W.H. Fox Talbot, founder of the modern photographic process. Sun printing relies on natural sunlight to produce an image on paper brushed with a mixture of minerals. Early in her career as a photographer, Linda McCartney began to experiment with the technique of sun printing, where natural sunlight is used to produce an image on plain paper treated with a … Continue reading →