Who got there first? Talbot and his rival Daguerre created similar chemical processes, but only one can claim to be the real pioneer, a new exhibition demonstrates
Once it was a simple case of rivalry between France and England. Was a Frenchman, Louis Daguerre, the real inventor of photography, or did an Englishman, William Henry Fox Talbot, get there first?
This week a new exhibition will answer the question, alongside other key puzzles, about the shared discovery of a process that forever changed the way humans look at the world.
