The view of the stable secured by Morell with his 4 x 5 over the course of an eight-hour open-shutter session is the same one Fox Talbot captured in 1840 for his first chemically developed calotype print, Combining modern technology and old-fashioned optics, Morell creates an engaging document that blurs past and present, inside and outside--a romantic work filled with an awe of scientific inquiry.

1841 - William Henry Fox Talbot patents the Calotype, a negative-positive photo process.

Talbot's calotype consisted of an exposure that produced no visible image; rather, as he states, "the impression is latent and invisible" (qtd.