Henry fox talbot contribution to photography

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.

He was born on February 11th 1800 in Melbury, Dorset as son of cavalry captain Mr. William Davenport Talbot and Lady Elizabeth Fox-Strangways. Since his father died early he grew up at the homes of several relatives. Since 1808 they sent him to Hooker's private school in Rottingdean, and later to the school of Harrow. He learned French, Italian, Latin and Greek, even Hebrew language, and he was interested in chemistry and botany. When he was fifteen he moved to private teachers in Castleford, Yorkshire. In 1819 he became a freshman at Trinity College in Cambridge. He won several awa Fox talbot photography!