Talbot’s Processes (3 of 12)


Working in England, at the same time as Daguerre, William Henry Fox Talbot is best known for the invention of the negative/positive photographic process that became the standard way of making photographs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His early processes of the photogenic drawing, salted paper print and calotype negative are demonstrated in this chapter.

Video from the George Eastman Museum

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