early photography – Ingliando

On this day, the French government presented the daguerreotype as a free gift to the world and published full working details of exactly how to use the innovative photographic process. The idea of permanently fixing the image obtained in the camera obscura had been around for some time, but it wasn’t until Niépce’s work in producing reproducible plates and Daguerre’s interest in shortening the exposure time that the birth of modern photography really came about. Daguerre neither patented nor profited from his invention in the usual way, however, preferring instead to sell full rights to the “daguerreotype” photographic process to the French government in exchange for lifetime pensions for himself and for Niépce’s son and heir, Isidore. The daguerrotype was largely superseded by faster, less expensive processes in the late 1850s.

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On this day William Henry Fox Talbot first displayed the results of his negative/positive photographic process to the Royal Institution in London. He then presented a Paper to the Royal Society about a week later, describing his process as ‘photogenic drawing’. There had been some earlier experiments in photography, but problems with long exposure times and difficulties in fixing the image had meant that it was not until the beginning of 1839 that both Daguerre and Fox Talbot finally announced their discoveries. Fox Talbot was destined to become one of the era’s defining inventors who used his process to capture historic moments and places such as the construction of Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square.

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