Features a biographical sketch of the English physicist William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), presented by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Notes that Talbot was a pioneer in photography.

Full facsimile of two of the most important documents in the history of photography.

As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world.