Henry Fox Talbot Professions : Inventor Born : February 11, 1800 Died : September 17, 1877 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Henry Fox Talbot 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. Henry Fox Talbot limits claims art Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies. Henry Fox Talbot body light photography One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature. Henry Fox Talbot discovery reality art [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. Henry Fox Talbot cameras glasses eye Similar Authors Arthur P. Warner inventor Arthur Fry inventor Bill Lear inventor Itzhak Bentov inventor Dr. An Wang inventor David Dunbar Buick inventor All Authors