2 Quotes & Sayings By William Beaumont
William Beaumont is the author of the first modern book on photography. Born in 1815, he studied medicine at Cambridge, where he had access to some of the finest laboratories in the world. This encouraged him to pursue photography as a hobby, which eventually evolved into a career. Beaumont had a successful career as a medical photographer, developing an interest in scientific photography that spanned over fifty years
He exhibited his work internationally, and was elected to the Royal Photographic Society.