WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877) Another “Inventor of Photography,” Same Time, Different Place Deep in the heart of Wiltshire, England, Lacock Abbey was established first as a refugee and retreat for Augustine nuns by Ela, the Countess of Salisbury, in...
THE DAGUERREOTYPE Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) “I am burning with desire to see your experiments with nature,” Daguerre wrote to Niépce in 1828. The partnership of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and Jacques Daguerre was an unlikely one. Niépce was a...
JOSEPH NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE (1765-1833) The First Photograph and Its Rediscovery Part Two The Niépce Brothers, Joseph and Claude, were remarkable inventors. Or to put it another way, in the Napoléonic Era, there was little interest in industrial invention or development....
JOSEPH NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE (1765-1833) The First Photograph Part One Although there was considerable early activity in England at the turn of the eighteenth century in the direction of the science of photography, the experiments conducted by Thomas Wedgwood and his...
THE REMARKABLE WEDGWOOD FAMILY Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805) The Invention of Photography One of the oldest–from contemporary perspective–or one of the first accounts of Thomas Wedgwood was A Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815) being records of the younger...
THE REMARKABLE WEDGWOODS Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) and Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805) Photography and Pottery Josiah Wedgwood was potter with a problem. Success. He had invented a new formula for making a durable and beautiful earthenware to take the place of expensive...
