The history of the photo album goes back to the beginnings of photography. William Henry Fox Talbot published his six-part book “The Pencil of Nature” in England between 1844 and 1846. It comprised 24 individual calotypes pasted in by hand. The edition: 43 copies. However, it sold poorly.

But the reproducibility of the calotype was groundbreaking and decisive for the further success of photography as a medium – and a prerequisite for collecting and preserving personal memories.