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Picture Perfect.(William Henry Fox Talbot )(Brief Article)
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. Talbot (1800-1877) grew up at a time when people sketched picturesque spots on their travels. This upper-class Englishman became so frustrated on his honeymoon at his lack of artistic skill, so the story goes, that he threw himself into developing a process whereby waterfalls and mountain vistas might be recorded mechanically. The result, a decade or so later, was the positive-negative process that Talbot called "photogenic drawing"--and we call photography.
If Talbot lacked the dexterity necessary to produce a decent drawing, he certainly ...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America REXER, LYLE September 1, 2001 700+ words
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot, by Larry J. Schaaf, Princeton, N.J...artistic medium. Its nature is paradoxical, and William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), the scientist who invented...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Jones, Malcolm February 17, 2003 700+ words
Byline: Malcolm Jones 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. Talbot (1800-1877) grew up at a time when people...
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...Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2001 This book, titled Traces of Light: The Art and Experiments of William Henry Fox Talbot in its English translation, was published in conjunction with an exhibition oranized under the same title at...
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...kalos, by their inventor William Henry Fox Talbot--says in no uncertain terms...early British photography--Fox Talbot, Benjamin Brecknell Turner...process. The author sides with Fox Talbot in his struggle to attain recognition...
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- Magazine article from: PSA Journal Adamson, Keith I.P. March 1, 1995 700+ words
...plates and papers. Even William Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of photogenic...August 1839, p. 7. 2. William Henry Fox Talbot, Photographic Pictures...June 1841, p. 312. 3. William Henry Fox Talbot, op. cit. 4. Antoine...
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