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Part of the Paris Photo 2010 exhibition. The term calotype applies to photographic negatives on paper and the resulting prints, a process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) in 1840, almost at the same time as Daguerre invented the daguerreotype in France. By making it possible to produce multiple prints from a single negative, the calotype was a turning point in the history of pho…