argent42

In the paragraph which begins, "Method of recording permanent images by the action of light,..." you write: "In addition, two Englishmen, Thomas Wedgwood and William Henry Fox Talbot, patented the negative-positive calotype process (1839) that became the forerunner of modern photographic technique." This absolutely false, and demands to be corrected! For one thing, Thomas Wedgwood, son of ceramic

argent42

In your paragraph beginning "France was the birthplace of photography,... " you claim that "It was Nicephore Niepce (1765-1833) who in the 1820's cooperating with Daguerre, developed the process from which photography derives." This is not only incorrect, but also implies a line of development that simply did not happen. Niepce's process was a form of engraving, using tars (bitumen of judea) an