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Bust of Patroclus, 1843

William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot was an English artist 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:

Buckler Fern

1839

The Bertoloni Album

1839

The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey

1835-1839

Detail of the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey

1840

Bust of Patroclus

1843

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

Nicéphore Niépce

The inventor of Photography

1765-1833

Hippolyte Bayard

The second person to invent photography

1801-1887

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Visionary promoter of photography

1787-1851
17011900
Drama, movement and a search for the exotic
Eugène Delacroix
Electric blue: the first photographic book
Anna Atkins William Henry Fox Talbot
Daughter of a master brings a new perspective to Edo Japan
Katsushika Ōi
The second person to invent photography
Hippolyte Bayard

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