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PHOTOGRAPHER · 1800–1877 · UNITED KINGDOM
William Henry Fox Talbot
Early calotype studies of buildings, objects and light at Lacock Abbey.
- Born
- 1800
- Died
- 1877
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1844The Pencil of Nature
- 1845Sun pictures in Scotland
WHY THEY MATTER
Inventor of the salted paper and calotype processes; elected to the Royal Society; The Pencil of Nature was illustrated with his original prints.
THE LIFE
Talbot was an English scientist who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, which made a negative from which many positive prints could be made. That negative-positive principle shaped most photography of the following century and a half. Between 1844 and 1846 he published The Pencil of Nature, illustrated with real photographic prints. He also photographed Oxford, Paris, Reading and York in the medium's first years.
Also born in Before 1850
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