Fox Talbot

The A4 heads west into Chippenham, where it is worth diverting south to find the village of Lacock, a perfectly configured British estate village, built to support Lacock Abbey, a National Trust-run property which was once home to William Henry Fox Talbot, a pioneer of early photography.

It was at nearby Margam Castle that Henry Fox Talbot invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries "In many ways photography has been through whole revolutions since the time of those like Julia Margaret Cameron or Henry Peach Robinson.

It used cutting-edge virtual reality technology to reconstruct a pioneering exhibition of photographs by William Fox Talbot held in Birmingham in 1839.

It used cutting edge virtual reality technology to reconstruct a pioneering exhibition of photographs by William Fox Talbot held in Birmingham in 1839.

2 Pass the entrance to Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot Museum to the right.

"In the very earliest days of the medium, pioneers like William Henry Fox Talbot and Roger Fenton both visited Yorkshire and made some fantastic photographs of its buildings, landscapes and people."

At the entrance, a glass case holds an 1843 photograph of Paris by one of the fathers of photography, Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot, next to other early photos.

Estrella says that the material on the webpage was produced by over 1,100 authors including renowned visual artists such as Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Austin, Bernardo Bellotto, Eugene Atget, Jan van der Heyden, Johannes Vermeer, Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Fox Talbot. This vast material portrays landscapes, personalities, historical events that shaped the world and images of celestial bodies obtained in astronomical observations made at the time.

5) What was the name of the early form of photograph invented by William Fox Talbot in 1840?

In which field was English physicist William Henry Fox Talbot primarily regarded as a pioneer?

The Photographic Society of London was founded in 1853 (it became Royal in 1894) 14 years after William Henry Fox Talbot had presented his 'art of photogenic drawing' (Fig.