William Henry Fox Talbot, the British scientist and inventor, who was born in 1800, was a polymath, well-versed in subjects from botany to the classics, which he studied at Cambridge University. But ...

The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford launched the first complete, digital catalogue for 19th-century photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot. William Henry Fox Talbot, “Nelson’s ...

Sotheby’s will auction almost 200 photos by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), one of the inventors of the medium, in New York next month. The collection, which will be offered as a single lot, is ...

A collection of around 200 images by one of history’s first photographers, William Henry Fox Talbot, has smashed auction estimates to sell for over $1.95 million. Sotheby’s auction house, which ...

The 2025 record price for William Henry Fox Talbot was for William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877 The 2024 record price for William Henry Fox Talbot was for Sir Walter Scott's Tomb, in Dryburgh Abbey.

While the invention of photography can be attributed to more than one person, British polymath William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) is credited with inventing the negative/positive paper process that ...

AN appeal for funds for a portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot has been issued over the signatures of Sir Robert Robinson, president of the Royal Society, Lord Brabazon of Tara, president of the Royal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Over the following decades – especially after Kodak released ...

IN 1844, William Henry Fox Talbot wrote of the epiphanic moment that led him to discover photography. It was Lake Como in 1833, and his aristocratic friends were sketching merrily with the aid of a ...

The Museum of Modern Art is presenting Time Travelers: Photographs from the Thayle Threenhill Collection, an exhibition of works from a monumental gift of photographs made in 2019 to the Museum by ...