What Is AI Going To Do To Art? The History Of Photography Offers Clues.

Lois Rosson is a historian of science and technology based in Los Angeles. She is currently writing a book about images of outer space and their legibility. In 1835, William Henry Fox Talbot finally succeeded in producing a crude photograph of his country estate. He triumphantly declared that his was the first house ever known to have drawn its own picture. Fox Talbot described the calotype, his contribution to the photomechanical process, as an eradication of human intervention.