ABSTRACT
Landscape in photography corresponds almost exactly with the discovery of photography, and especially with non-daguerreotype photography; that is, with photography as we usually think of it, a positive/negative process with a repeatable visual product, always more or less the same. When the discoverer of negative/positive photography, William Henry Fox Talbot, went on his photographic excursion to Loch Katrine, he made several views of that site. Apparently, he documented the lake. As photography grew artistic - and it did so with clear intent rapidly, m its second decade - the photographic subject, human or otherwise, took a bit of a back seat to effect and message. It grows clearer that landscape is culturally rooted, insofar as it represents a marriage between the culture of the artist vis-a-vis the object represented.
