Contributions by Richard Benson

—Journal of the American Institute of Conservation

"A cleverly concealed art lesson

First published in 1992

ISBN 978-0-89236-759-7

In Focus: William Henry Fox Talbot Getty Pubs Perm Sale Contributions by Richard BensonLarry Schaaf William Henry Fox Talbot, a scientist, mathematician, author, and artist, is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. In mid 1834 he began to experiment with light sensitive chemistry, and in January 1839 he announced his invention of the photogenic drawing, two weeks after Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's daguerreotype process debuted in France. Talbot's improved processthe calotypewas introduced in 1840. This