William Henry Fox Talbot

• Born in 18OO• Studied at Cambridge• On tri to Lake Como in Italy, sketched landsca e using camera

lucida….metal arm on board with rism at other end…• Rojected image lacked sohistication and detail when drawn• Romted Talbot to begin inventing a rocess for caturing image• Figured out how to cature image with short exosure time and

then chemically develo and fix….couldnt see image until rocessed above calotye

Flowers, Leaves, and Stemc. 1838

Cloisters, Lacock Abbey1843

Pantheon1843

The Haystack1844-45

Nicolaas Henneman, Asleepc. 1844-45

Ships at Low Tidec. 1844

Resources

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/fox_talbot_william_henry.shtml

• http://www.masters-of-photography.com/T/talbot/talbot.html

Critique

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