
3 3 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 25cm
Description
Photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877). Fox Talbot invented the negative/positive proces for making photographs between 1835 and 1939. Any number of prints could be made from the same shot by transferring the negative image on to special paper; these prints were called calotypes.
Image Details
Image Ref.
10321535
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