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The Image Revealed: First Photographs on Paper in Great-Britain (1840-1860)

May 27, 2008—September 7, 2008

The official announcement of Daguerre and Fox Talbot's inventions both came at the beginning of 1839. On 7 January, Arago presented the daguerreotype to the Académie des Sciences in Paris. The arrival of this news in England prompted Fox Talbot to abandon his reticence. Having been very discreet until then about the contents of his work, he exhibited his first photogenic drawings in London at the end of January 1839.

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