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. Get notified when William Henry Fox Talbot's biography is complete:

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

1846

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Visionary promoter of photography

1787-1851

Alice Austen

1866-1952

Tina Modotti

1896-1942

1701 1900

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

Katsushika Ōi

The second person to invent photography

Hippolyte Bayard

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William Henry Fox Talbot

Buckler Fern

The Bertoloni Album

The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey

Detail of the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey

Bust of Patroclus