William Henry Fox Talbot
Britain's photographic pioneer

William Henry Fox Talbot, The Artists

Bust of Patroclus

Portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot was an English Photographer born on February 11, 1800. Henry Fox Talbot contributed to the Early Photography movement and died on September 17, 1877.

Buckler Fern, William Henry Fox Talbot

Buckler Fern

The Bertoloni Album, William Henry Fox Talbot

The Bertoloni Album

The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey, William Henry Fox Talbot

The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey

Detail of the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey, William Henry Fox Talbot

Detail of the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey

Bust of Patroclus, William Henry Fox Talbot

Bust of Patroclus

The plates of the present work are impressed by the agency of Light alone, without any aid from the artist's pencil.

Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art

Nicéphore Niépce, The Artists

Nicéphore Niépce

The inventor of Photography

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, The Artists

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Visionary promoter of photography

Julia Margaret Cameron, The Artists

Julia Margaret Cameron

17011900

Drama, movement and a search for the exotic

Eugène Delacroix

Electric blue: the first photographic book

Anna Atkins William Henry Fox Talbot

The other half of Hokusai

The second person to invent photography

Hippolyte Bayard

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