Digital Learning Commons: History of Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot

Resources

WHF Talbot: Biography
Good introduction into the life of Talbot, hosted by the Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot website.
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne
Good resource on Talbot including a biography and his works.
Calotype
Background information on the calotype process, a photographic technique invented by Talbot.

William Henry Fox Talbot best known for his development of the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor L.-J.-M. Daguerre. Talbot’s calotypes involved the use of a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made; had his method been announced but a few weeks earlier, he and not Daguerre would probably have been known as the founder of photography.

Source: "William Henry Fox Talbot." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 Mar. 2011. school.eb.com.ursus-proxy-10.ursus.maine.edu/levels/high/article/William-Henry-Fox-Talbot/71034.