William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a philosopher, classicist, Egyptologist, mathematician, philologist, transcriber and translator of Syrian and Chaladean cuneiform texts, physicist and the first photographer to develop the process of making multiple reproductions. Michael Gray is the Director of the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock Abbey, as well as the Scientific Director of Ikons Centre Imaging Project at the University of Pordenone, Italy. Arthur Ollman, director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, is the recipient of three NEA grants, has been exhibited and collected world-wide. Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego is the co-author of Paul Outerbridge.
"While there are plenty of other collections of [Talbot's] work, this one perhaps best captures the spirit with which he made it."
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