William Henry Fox Talbot, Nelson’s Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London, April 1844, printed later. Salted paper print from a paper negative.
(Courtesy Wilson Centre for Photography)

Hope Kingsley, an expert on the history of photography’s first decades will present a free public lecture on the exhibit Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840–1860, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St.

Kingsley is curator of Education and Collections, at the Wilson Centre for Photography. She will offer an in-depth overview of the newly opened Salt & Silver exhibit, a major traveling show that provides a rare chance to experience some of the earliest photographs ever made, by many of the most important and groundbreaking figures in the history of the photographic medium.

Organized by the Wilson Centre for Photography, London, with the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840–1860 is on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Sept. 8-Dec. 8.

Reserve tickets at the Museum Visitor Services Desk, or online at tickets.sbma.net.

— Katrina Carl for Santa Barbara Museum of Art.