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also continued into her forties her self-education in the new subject of photography. In 1841 she was experimenting with camera work as developed by William Henry Fox Talbot
in the form of photograms produced...
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Anna Atkins
It appeared before Fox Talbot
's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...
Timeline
25 January 1839: William Henry Fox Talbot's invention, photogenic...
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25 January 1839
William Henry Fox Talbot
's invention, photogenic drawing (using what later became known as a photographic negative), was exhibited by Michael Faraday
to the Royal Society
in London.
Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.
655
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
69
Schaaf, Larry J. Out of the Shadows. Yale University Press, 1992.
47
Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996.
307
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965.
150
1840: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented...
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1840
Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot
invented the calotype system of photography.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.
4-7
Galligan, Francesca. “The Personal Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot”. Bodleian Library Friends’ Newsletter, 2012, p. 2.
24 June 1844-April 1846: William Henry Fox Talbot published Pencil...
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24 June 1844-April 1846
William Henry Fox Talbot
published Pencil of Nature, the first mainstream book to feature photographic illustrations.
Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
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Serially published by Longman's over the period specified, Fox Talbot's book bore the imprint of 1844.
May 1846: A magazine called The Art Union published...
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May 1846
A magazine called The Art Union published a calotype photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot
; this involved printing about 7,000 photographs from several negatives and hand-pasting them into copies.
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
200
1847: The Calotype Club was founded to practice...
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1847
The Calotype Club
was founded to practice and promote Talbot
's method of photography.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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1851: Frederick Scott Archer invented the wet colloidon...
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1851
Frederick Scott Archer
invented the wet colloidon photographic process, which soon overtook other methods.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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December 1854: William Henry Fox Talbot lost the case by...
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December 1854
William Henry Fox Talbot
lost the case by which he tried to retain control over all photographic innovations stemming from his early discoveries: freed from licensing, photography now proliferated rapidly.
Davis, Phil. Photography. 3rd ed., W. C. Brown, 1979.