Photogenic drawing was the name William Henry Fox Talbot gave to his initial photographic invention. As early as 1834, Talbot was making salt prints by placing lace, leaves and other objects on light-sensitive paper and exposing it to the sun.
Photogenic drawing - original name given by William Fox Talbot to his earliest method of recording camera images.
He refers to this as photogenic drawing.
1839 - John Herschel demonstrates hyposulfite of soda (also known as hypo, or sodium thiosulfate) as a fixer, and makes the first glass negative.
His "photogenic drawings" were among the first-ever photographs; he placed plant specimens directly onto his sensitized paper, exposed it to light, creating a permanent record of the shadow of the plant.
consultation with others, Wedgwood found a way to 'develop' the image using chemicals that would turn the exposed part of the media black, while leaving white the unexposed shape of the object. He called the resulting creations "photogenic drawings".
 See also: Photograph, Image, Photography, Negative, Photographer
  
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