History Of Images Historical Past, Innovations, Artists, & Events Although modern images is dominated by digital customers, film continues to be used by lovers and skilled photographers. Meanwhile, a British inventor, William Fox Talbot, had succeeded in making crude but fairly light-fast silver pictures on paper as early as 1834 but had saved his work secret. After reading about Daguerre's invention in January 1839, Talbot revealed his hitherto secret method and set about bettering on it. Talbot's well-known tiny paper unfavorable of the Oriel…