On his honeymoon in 1833, William Henry Fox Talbot struggled to sketch the Italian countryside.

FORBES: Why Founding Photographer William Henry Fox Talbot Would Have Grokked Photoshop

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 Fox Talbot.

ECONOMIST: The daguerreotype is back

Transformed in the early 1800s by the Prince Regent (later King George IV) from a south-coast fishing village into a fashionable spa, Brighton boasted a railway connection with London as early as 1841 a couple of years after Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot published their historical findings on how to fix images made by the effects of light.

ECONOMIST: This show is a gem