In 1839, British inventor William Henry Fox Talbot created the salt print, the earliest form of paper photography. Talbot was a polymath, interested in, among other things, mathematics, chemistry ...

Talbot developed his groundbreaking “salted paper” photography technique during a vacation in the early 1830s, when he grew frustrated with the limitations of sketching.

William Henry Fox Talbot, “Nelson’s Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London” (first week of April 1844), salted paper print (courtesy Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs) ...

Featuring over 100 early salted paper photos, “Salt and Silver: Early Photography, 1840-1860” is on display through Sept. 9 at the Yale Center for British Art. ‘We can’t make anything this good’ — ...

Talbot made his prints with silver chloride paper, or salted paper, which he developed through his earlier photographic experiments. It was watershed development in photographic history, greatly ...

Fine art photographers are rediscovering the unique picture qualities of old film processes.

The salted-paper process, using compounds of salt and silver, was invented by the British scientist and scholar William Fox Talbot (1800–1877) in 1839. On one level, ...

View STUDY OF A MARBLE BUST, c.1840s, Salt paper print from a calotype negative, image size, 162 x 126mm, mounted onto contemporary paper support, with hand drawn borders, with Patent Talbotype or Sun ...

Talbot developed his groundbreaking “salted paper” photography technique during a vacation in the early 1830s, when he grew frustrated with the limitations of sketching.