Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Talbot was a chemist, linguist, archaeologist and considered another pioneer photographer. Henry had taken Daguerre's process and had created a better version of it in 1840 called it the calotype. Unlike Daguerre's processes Henry's processes used "paper negatives". Where were essentially contact prints on paper that was highly light-sensitive that multiple prints could be made. If he had made his announcement he instead of Louis Daguerre would probably have been known as the founder of photography. In 1841 Talbot patented the process and lost many friends because he refused to share his knowledge of the process. He also created the first book with photographic illustrations.