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The history of Australian photography is most interesting has paved the way for the ever growing form of art, that is photography. The dream of fixing an image onto a surface to be then carried away was one of William Henry Fox Talbot who was the first to invent photography, in 1839. That same year M. Daguerre discovered the photographic process called the Daguerreotype. In 1840 Fox Talbot produced negative images using silver nitrate solution to produce what he called a calotype. 1851 Fredric Scott Archer discovered the collodian wet plate process for producing an image. The major influences on Australia