Henry Fox Talbot
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Oct 29, 2026
Neil SelkirkGUEST
And Niepce knew about this.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
Fox Talbot knew about this.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
And it was subsequently suppressed.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
The camera sees everything.
Reza Nasiri MahalatiHOST
It's not reproducible as in multiple copies.
Reza Nasiri MahalatiHOST
In about the same time, a different process was developed by William Talbot, which was, from a commercial point of view, was a much better imaging process.
Reza Nasiri MahalatiHOST
And that one is called Calotype.
Reza Nasiri MahalatiHOST
And it's basically where the modern analog cameras started.
Cate O'Connell-RichardsGUEST
it gets very dark.
Cate O'Connell-RichardsGUEST
There's a famous photo by, I think, William Henry Fox Talbot, and he was a photographer.
Cate O'Connell-RichardsGUEST
We have very early photographs.
Cate O'Connell-RichardsGUEST
We're talking, I think, 1840s.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
And so I've always been irritated by that.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
And then I said, reading a fair bit of history, which I never had done before, it became obvious that from the invention of, you know, photography was going to be invented, whether it was by Niepce, Daguerre, or Fox Talbot, it was going to happen around the time it happened.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
There were people all over, mostly Europe, working on securing the image that they saw in the back of a camera lucida.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
But these guys did it, and the first thing they saw was was that there was so much more in these pictures than they had seen when they took the picture.
Robin InceGUEST
And then, hang on a minute, but what if we go, yeah, let's do cubism.
Robin InceGUEST
They can't do that with their Fox Talbot.
Robin InceGUEST
And so I think very often these things that we panic about, the real panic is normally the people who are pressing the buttons and the ones who are using it very often just to gain more and more money.
Robin InceGUEST
Dave?
Neil SelkirkGUEST
The, the straight photography discovers things.
Neil SelkirkGUEST
You know, um, Niepce and, and Fox Talbot, they'd looked at their first pictures and went, "My God-
Michael Chovan-DaltonHOST
[laughs]
Neil SelkirkGUEST
... look what you can see."
Simon HillGUEST
It was the end of last year.
Simon HillGUEST
In fact, the day before yesterday, I was at Lake Huckabee the home of photography with Fox Talbot's work there.
Simon HillGUEST
But Martin's work at Laycock was an exhibition there and his wife Susie was there on his behalf I suppose really, but on her own behalf as well.
Simon HillGUEST
And it was lovely to see that work.
Trish LambeGUEST
You did the daguerreotype, which is a one-off onto tin, quite delicate in these beautiful cases, amazingly kind of like detailed and beautiful things.
Trish LambeGUEST
And then in England, you have Fox Talbot, which is a positive-negative system.
Trish LambeGUEST
And from that, you get multiples.
Trish LambeGUEST
So really quite quickly...
Trish LambeGUEST
Amazingly kind of, like, detailed and beautiful things.
Trish LambeGUEST
And then in England, you've Fox Talbot, which was a positive-negative system, and from that you'd get multiples.
Trish LambeGUEST
So really quite quickly, everyone was trying to speed up, make it faster, faster, faster.
Trish LambeGUEST
Because you had to stand between, like, you know, sometimes up to a couple of minutes, which is why it was w- the early photographs are so formal.