William Henry Fox Talbot, the British scientist and inventor ... he began experimenting with salt, paper, and sunlight. In 1839, he publicly announced a new process for making photographs.

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 - 1877) was a erudite English gentleman and pioneer of photography. During 1834 and 1835, Talbot had devised a process based on the light sensitivity of silver salts ...

The contribution played by Victorian photography pioneer Henry Fox Talbot will be showcased in ... he brushed a piece of writing paper with salt and silver nitrate and placed it in a small wooden ...