William Henry Fox TalbotInghilterra, 1800–1877Wrack
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Nella vita di William Henry Fox Talbot
Tutta la vita1837 · Premio
Royal Society Bakerian Medal
16 marzo 1837
Daughter born: Rosamond Constance Talbot
25 January 1839
First showing of photographs at the Royal Institution
Shortly after Louis Daguerre’s daguerreotype was announced in early January, Talbot asserted his priority and, at a Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, exhibited several paper photographs he had made in 1835. Within a fortnight he described the nature of his process to the Royal Society, while Daguerre revealed no useful details of his own until mid-August.
1840
Invents the calotype
Talbot found a way to print any number of positives on salted paper from a paper negative; new chemicals cut the exposure to a minute in bright sunlight. He called the method the “calotype” (from kalos, beautiful), informally the “talbotype”: unlike the daguerreotype with its single positive, it effectively created modern photography.
1840–1841
Post: High Sheriff of Wiltshire
February 1841
Patents the calotype
Talbot obtained an English patent for the calotype process and sold licences at £20 each, later lowering the fee for amateurs to £4 while professionals paid up to £300 a year; scientists saw it as a hindrance to scientific freedom. He justified his rigour by the roughly £5,000 he had spent on photography; for science the method was free, and Talbot himself published the first known photomicrograph of a mineral crystal.
![[Botanical Specimen], William Henry Fox Talbot, ca. 1835](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP339367.jpg)
![[Lacock Abbey], William Henry Fox Talbot, 1839–40](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP202316.jpg)
