Room after room, from intimate tower spaces to state
rooms and a dramatic Gothic hall are filled with the
artifacts of privilege that would be familiar to Jane Austen
or, indeed, to William Beckford. The former would inhabit
the cozy drawing rooms; the latter, the near monumental
Gothic cloister and spectacular great hall.
Having been familiar with early photography since
childhood and having visited exhibitions on London���s
Bond Street in the 1960s and ���70s, Lacock figured in my
mind as a sort of Holy Grail of a place associated with
the fermentation of photography, an art form for which
I have a great passion. I associated Fox Talbot���s house
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