Fox Talbot

/ ˈtɔːlbət /

noun

1. William Henry. See Talbot

Example Sentences

But silhouettes like this are evoked by the phrase “the art of fixing a shadow,” which is how William Henry Fox Talbot described his earthshaking invention of the negative-positive process that made photographs possible.

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Among the images is a print of a cat dating back to the 1830s by photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot.

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One innovator, William Henry Fox Talbot, wrote in 1839 that he thought he had discovered something that might have "many useful and important applications".

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The photographic processes devised by such 1830s pioneers as Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot were influential but soon abandoned.

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Lacock Abbey, one of many locations to become Hogwarts, is a country house with monastic roots and was once the home of William Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of the photographic negative.

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