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Henry Fox Talbot Quotes

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

Henry Fox Talbot
Art, Limits, Claims

One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

Henry Fox Talbot
Art, Reality, Discovery
William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

Henry Fox Talbot
Photography, Light, Body

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.

Henry Fox Talbot
Eye, Glasses, Cameras
William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”

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