当人们在津津乐道香港摄影艺坛往事时,无意中疏忽了香港摄影发展的历史定位,原因在于香港曾经长期受到英国殖民主义文化的影响。在摄影发明史上,英国人塔尔博特(William Henry Fox Talbot)发明的卡罗法摄影术几乎与法国人达盖尔的发明同时问世。摄影起源于英国。19世纪后50年,英国的“画意摄影”几乎一统天下,曾经是维多利亚时 When people talked about the history of photography in Hong Kong, they inadvertently neglected the historical position of Hong Kong’s photographic development because Hong Kong has been influenced by the British colonial culture for a long time. In the history of photography, Carlo France was invented by Briton William Henry Fox Talbot almost at the same time as the French invention by Daguerre. Photography originated in the United Kingdom. In the second half of the 19th century, Britain’s “pictorial photography” almost dominated the world and was once a Victorian