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The Pencil of Nature

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  • William Henry Fox Talbot
    In William Henry Fox Talbot

    Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature (1844–46), published in six installments, had 24 (of a proposed 50) plates that documented the beginnings of photography primarily through studies of art objects and architecture. In 1851 Talbot discovered a way of taking instantaneous photographs, and his “photolyphic engraving” (patented…

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