William Henry Fox Talbot

And I met another man in pursuit of a similar method of sun drawing by the name of William Henry Fox Talbot.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

And I met another man in pursuit of a similar method of sun drawing by the name of William Henry Fox Talbot.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

And I met another man in pursuit of a similar method of sun drawing by the name of William Henry Fox Talbot.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

Turner Contemporary, to 4 SepSSThis fascinating show aims to tell the life stories of some of the most renowned photographers of all time, from 19th-century pioneers Jacques Mandé Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot onwards.

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William Henry Fox Talbot has this great idea to use a camera to take an image, but he couldn't fix the image and make it permanent on paper.

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The piece, with text drawn from Rilke, R ü ckert and William Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneer of photography, is scored for two voices and a quartet of violin, cello, clarinet and piano, the same configuration that Messiaen used for his "Quartet for the End of Time," written while he was a prisoner of war.

Writing Death's Gentle Aria in the Face of Despair 2011

The negative-positive process was invented in England by William Henry Fox Talbot during the 1830s and became the basis of photography until the digital revolution.

The Art in Early Photography 2008

Mac MargolisPhotographyPicture PerfectIt's not the whole truth, but a good part of the reason William Henry Fox Talbot became one of the fathers of photography was that he could not draw well.

Periscope 2007

It's not the whole truth, but a good part of the reason William Henry Fox Talbot became one of the fathers of photography was that he could not draw well.

Photography: Picture Perfect 2007

The piece uses evocative texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Rückert, and William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the inventors of photography, to meditate on the way photographs grant us both closeness to, and distance from, the past.

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