William Henry Fox Talbot
Standard Name: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Connections
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| Education | Anna Atkins | AA
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... |
| Textual Production | 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.
1840: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot invented...
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1840
Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot
invented the calotype system of photography.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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