William Fox Talbot
Inventor
1800 – 1877
Who was William Fox Talbot?
William Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Talbot was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. Additionally, he made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York.
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- Born
- Feb 11, 1800
Dorset - Also known as
- William Henry Fox Talbot
- Parents
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Harrow School
- Lived in
- Reading
- Died
- Sep 17, 1877
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Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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