Episode number 1 of Series “Pioneers of photography”.
The theory of “sun drawing” was widely known in the early 19th Century, and it is not possible to say who invented photography. W. Henry Fox Talbot, however,was the first person to fix a negative image onto paper permanently.
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ACMI Identifier
305310
Language
English
Subject categories
Crafts & Visual Arts → Fox, W. Henry
Crafts & Visual Arts → Photographers
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)