Constance Fox Talbot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Constance Fox Talbot

British photographer

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1811

Place of Birth: Markeaton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1880

Profession: photographer

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Constance Fox Talbot

  • Constance Talbot (nÊe Mundy, 30 January 1811 – 9 September 1880) married William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the key players in the development of photography in the 1830s and 1840s, in 1832.
  • She briefly experimented with the process, herself, as early as 1839 and has been credited as the first woman ever to take a photograph – a hazy image of a short verse by the Irish poet Thomas Moore.Constance, who came from Markeaton in Derbyshire, was the youngest daughter of Francis Mundy (1771–1837), Member of Parliament for that county from 1822 to 1831.

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