Tag: Fowx films collection

For six weeks or so in May and June of 1864, photographer Egbert Guy Fowx outfitted his 6.5 in. x 8.5 in. camera with a lens mounted on a circular base that could be rotated to make four consecutive, discrete exposures onto one glass negative. Twenty-eight of the original negatives survive. For two of them, Fowx turned the camera between shooting the upper pair and lower pair of images. For the other twenty-six, we have created downloadable versions of each of the four exposures, and positioned each exposure in the frame so that viewing them consecutively (a,b,c,d) is somewhere between watching a film clip and viewing time lapse photography.