A collection of around 200 images by one of history’s first photographers, William Henry Fox Talbot, has smashed auction estimates to sell for over $1.95 million. Sotheby’s auction house, which ...
Sotheby’s will auction almost 200 photos by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), one of the inventors of the medium, in New York next month. The collection, which will be offered as a single lot, is ...
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- An exhibition that takes the viewer back to the very moment of invention of the first reproducible photographic process by an English chemist is a landmark event in the ...
William Henry Fox Talbot, the British scientist and inventor, who was born in 1800, was a polymath, well-versed in subjects from botany to the classics, which he studied at Cambridge University. But ...
IN 1844, William Henry Fox Talbot wrote of the epiphanic moment that led him to discover photography. It was Lake Como in 1833, and his aristocratic friends were sketching merrily with the aid of a ...
Image caption, The Victorian inventor of the photographic negative, Henry Fox Talbot The contribution played by Victorian photography pioneer Henry Fox Talbot will be showcased in a new exhibition.
The contribution played by Victorian photography pioneer Henry Fox Talbot will be showcased in a new exhibition. BBC News has taken a look at the impact of his work in creating the world's first ...
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