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William Henry Fox Talbot

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William Henry Fox Talbot was mathematician, archaeologist, and one of the most important pioneers of photography. He was inventor of the first predecessor of the modern analog photographic process with negatives as originals and positive prints as copies of the photographs. Fox Talbox called these types of images Calotypes, and they also became known as Talbotypes.

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