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Pioneers of Photography

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The first of eight programmes The Pencil of Nature
'I do not profess to have perfected an art but to have commenced one....'
HENRY FOX TALBOT , 1839
At his home in Wiltshire,
Fox Talbot overcame many problems before he got his first photographs.
Narrated by Brian Coe. (R)

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Henry Fox Talbot
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Fox Talbot
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Brian Coe.
Source: Radio Times

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