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 ...

The history of photography has never followed a straight continuum. Since before the time of Vermeer, artists and scientists have labored at different times and in different locations around the globe ...

STUDY OF A MARBLE BUST, c.1840s, Salt paper print from a calotype negative, image size, 162 x 126mm, mounted onto contemporary paper support, with hand drawn borders, with 'Patent Talbotype or Sun ...

Wiltshire, Sir William Henry Fox Talbot, known as the father of modern photography, was a British visionary whose name is etched in the annals. He passed away on September 17, 1877. In 1833, while ...

How much would you pay for a photographic print of a special foreign destination? Ten dollars, maybe $20? That would be a bargain — compared with the full week’s pay buyers in the 19th Century doled ...

HE WAS a man of some accomplishments, but drawing eluded him. So while on honeymoon in Italy in 1833, William Henry Fox Talbot adopted the camera lucida, a tracing device, to help him sketch scenes.