In Focus: William Henry Fox Talbot

$19.95 at The Getty Museum.

Larry Schaaf William Henry Fox Talbot, a scientist, mathematician, author, and artist, is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. In mid-1834 he began to experiment with light-sensitive chemistry, and in January 1839 he announced his invention of the photogenic drawing, two weeks after Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre's daguerreotype process debuted in France. Talbot's improved process—the calotype—was introduced in 1840. This invention, which shortened exposure times and facilitated making…