Fox Talbot & the Reading Establishment Guy Bennett

Fox Talbot & the Reading Establishment Guy BennettThe very first book in the world to be illustrated with photographs was produced in Reading between 1844 and 1846. In 1843, William Henry Fox Talbot set up the first commercial studios to mass produce photographs from negatives and he chose the Berkshire town of Reading as its location. The Reading Establishment, as it became known, marks a pivotal moment in the development of photography. Martin Andrews tells the story of these momentous events and

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His first poetry collection Glaciation (2009) won the international Glen Dimplex Award for poetry in 2008

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