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Simon Hill HonFRPS, President of the RPS simon.hill@rps.org
William Henry Fox Talbot was a polymath, perhaps best known as one of the founding father’s of photography, alongside Johann Heinrich Schulze (1717), Thomas Wedgwood (circa 1800), Nicéphore Niépce (circa 1820), and Louis Daguerre (1839). Talbot’s
salted paper photographic process was the result of experiments he had begun in 1834. However, it was not until a few months after Daguerre’s announcement (made without revealing any useful details) of his
daguerrotype process in early January 1839, that Fox Talbot announced details of his process to the Royal Institution on 25 January 1839.
The best British museums and art galleries to visit in the UK now
Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see?
28 May 2021 • 9:06am
Naum Gabo s Constructed Head No.2 is one of the artworks reopening at Tate St Ives
Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Wire
As lockdown measures are lifted, we are now allowed to go inside other places other than our own homes and supermarkets, art galleries are back open, whether for a family outing or just a wander around to admire the art on offer.
Some smaller commercial galleries were allowed to reopen before May 17, as they’re classed as “non-essential retail” and were thus able to welcome visitors (and customers) back, as other shops were, from April 12. However, more exhibitions are now opening to give people the opportunity to experience the works that they have been deprived of for so long.