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Set of World’s Earliest Photos by Fox Talbot Sells for Staggering $1.96M
In a sale celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sotheby's photography auctions, a set of nearly 200 early photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot quadrupled its pre-auction high estimate and achieved a new auction record for the artist: $1,956,000.