Art News: Records Fall In Auction Devoted to Photography's Masters
The hottest name in photography today?
William Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneering photographer who died in 1877.
At a recent auction at Sotheby’s devoted to masters of photography, a set of nearly 200 images by Talbot sold for a staggering $1,956,000, well beyond its estimate of $300,000 to 500,000 and …