William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)

English physicist and pioneer of photography. In 1839 he announced his invention of photography, which he called ‘photogenic drawing’, in the same year as the dauguerreotype was invented by Louis Daguerre. In 1841 he patented his calotype, which was the first photographic process from which prints could be made.

Fox Talbot's Pencil of Nature (1844) was the first ever book to have photographic illustrations.