Indeed, it was FoxTalbot himself who made the first recorded images of Brighton in the winter of 1846 when he pointed his lens at the exotic domes and minarets of the Brighton Pavilion.
This sounds kitsch, though Michael Gray, a British photographer, has produced a surprisingly soft and lovely print of three people outside the medieval Wiltshire abbey that once was home to the man who discovered how to use negatives to produce positive prints, William Henry FoxTalbot.