Geoffrey Batchen

Inventing Photography by Geoffrey Batchen explores the remarkable contributions of William Henry Fox Talbot, celebrated today as the English inventor of photography. Talbot made pioneering photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process in January 1839, and introduced significant innovations to the medium throughout the 1840s and 1850s. Drawing on archive material from the Bodleian...

William Henry Fox Talbot, the English inventor of photography, created around 15,000 photographs in the nineteenth century. Most of these were attempts to produce compelling scientific documents or pictorial records of the world around him. However, among those that have survived are also prints in which an image has been obscured, obliterated, or simply failed to register. The Forms of...