Thursday, 3 October 2013

William Henry Fox Talbot

His method:

  • Invented salted paper print
  • coating writing paper with it then put a coat of silver nitrate on top
  • Through contact printint he could make a cameraless picture as it made a negative version of objects
  • The coated paper darkens on exposure to light so their was no need for development
  • He could then make a positive image by contact printing the negative



Importance: Orginated the method upon which all subsequent photography was based (until the invention of electronic imaging)

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