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# Henry Fox Talbot

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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.

## Quick Facts About Henry Fox Talbot

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## About Henry Fox Talbot

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.

##  Quotes by Henry Fox Talbot

> [One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fox-talbot/one-advantage-of-the-discovery-of-the-photographic-art-will-be-that/)

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> [Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fox-talbot/photography-was-the-first-available-demonstration-that-light-could/)

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> [ \[The camera\] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fox-talbot/the-camera-may-be-said-to-make-a-picture-of-whatever-it-sees-the/)

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> [I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fox-talbot/i-do-not-claim-to-have-perfected-an-art-but-to-have-commenced-one-the/)

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