William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:S: 30 x 25cm The great medieval abbey church

The great medieval abbey church of St Albans developed on the site of the shrine to St Alban

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The pagoda which was illuminated with gas lights

'Samuel McPherson

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:S: 30 x 25cm The great medieval abbey churchWilliam Henry Fox Talbot (1800 1877), British photography pioneer, 1900. Talbot is best known for his development of the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor Louis Daguerre. Talbot's calotypes involved the use of a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made. Had his method been announced a few weeks earlier, he, and not Daguerre, would probably be remembered