Henry Fox Talbot Quotes

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.