Imaging recource: Move over Daguerre: William Henry Fox Talbot, a pioneer and gifted photographer on exhibit

It might be difficult to imagine, but photography was at one time a field occupied almost entirely by scientists. In the mid-19th century, one of these scientists, William Henry Fox Talbot, invented a process which would shape photography for well over a century, the negative-positive process. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Fox Talbot was not just a scientist and inventor, but he also made important contributions to photography as an artistic medium. His work is now being celebrated until September 11th at the Science Museum in London. The exhibition's...
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