[Street with Lamp Post and Wine Shop], 1850s, Albumen silver print, Image: 6 7/8 × 7 13/16 in. (17.5 × 19.8 cm), Photographs, Unknown (British), In 1841 William Henry Fox Talbot patented the first negative-positive photographic process, which formed the basis of photography until the digital age. The photographer placed a piece of paper coated in a solution of light-sensitive silver salts in the camera, exposed it to sunlight, and developed the latent image to produce a negative that could then be printed as multiple positives
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