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One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Fox Talbot

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Born: February 11, 1800

Died: September 17, 1877 (aged 77)

Bio: William Henry Fox Talbot was a British scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.

Known for:

The Pencil of Nature (1844)
Specimens and Marvels
English etymologies (1847)

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