William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. He was the holder of a controversial patent that affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. He was also a noted photographer who contributed to the development of photography as an artistic medium. He published The Pencil of Nature (1844–1846), which was illustrated with original salted paper prints from his calotype negatives and made some important early photographs of Oxford, Paris, Reading, and York.
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Works in Collection
12 works
A Scene in York
William Henry Fox Talbot
July 28, 1845
Articles of Glass
William Henry Fox Talbot
Before June 1844
Lace
William Henry Fox Talbot
1845
Lace
William Henry Fox Talbot
1840s
Loch Katrine
William Henry Fox Talbot
1844
One of the Towers of Orleans Cathedral, as Seen from the ...
William Henry Fox Talbot
June 21, 1843
Seated Figure in the Cloisters, Lacock Abbey
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1844
The Fruit Sellers
William Henry Fox Talbot
1845
The Open Door
William Henry Fox Talbot
Before May 1844
Trafalgar Square, London, during the Erection of the Nels...
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1844
Untitled
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1852
Wheat
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1854
Exhibitions
14 exhibitionsMar 17, 1937 – Apr 18, 1937
Photography 18391937
243 artists · 1 curator
Aug 18, 1943 – Sep 19, 1943
Action Photography
44 artists · 1 curator
May 24, 1944 – Sep 17, 1944
Photography
63 artists · 1 curator
Apr 26, 1949 – Jul 24, 1949
Roots of Photography
6 artists · 1 curator
Aug 05, 1952 – Aug 18, 1952
Then and Now
54 artists · 1 curator
Nov 26, 1958 – Jan 18, 1959
Photographs from the Museum Collection
273 artists · 1 curator
Nov 18, 1959 – Nov 29, 1959
30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
140 artists
May 27, 1964
Edward Steichen Photography Center
130 artists · 1 curator
May 06, 1976 – Jul 18, 1976
Photography: Recent Acquisitions, 19741976
33 artists · 1 curator
May 07, 1979 – Jul 29, 1979
Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
11 artists · 2 curators
Dec 21, 1979
Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
102 artists · 1 curator
Oct 23, 1980
Reinstallation of the Collection
129 artists
May 06, 1981 – Jul 05, 1981
Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
54 artists · 1 curator
Nov 15, 1984 – Mar 03, 1985
From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
25 artists · 1 curator