The entry in my Encyclopaedia Of Photography says "Fox Talbot 1860-77, English archaeologist, chemist, linguist, mathematician and the inventor of photography" no less.
Almost unknown in this country, he lived in Brighton and went to school in what is now known as the Grange Art Gallery in Rottingdean but even here little is told about him.
Yet, without a doubt, he invented photography as we know it today.
Before Talbot, only one positive image was produced and if more than one was needed, another photo had to be taken.
Talbot was the first to make a negative image from which multiple positive prints could be made and photography as we know it was born.
He has received little recognition for his discovery, nor for another of his inventions, the half-tone process that allows photographs to be printed in books, magazines and newspapers.
The Talbot room in the Grange is out of action at the moment due to flooding.
-Doug Streeter, Brighton
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