Singular Images, Failed CopiesFocusing on early nineteenth century England? and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot? Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change. Treating photography not merely as a medium or a system of representation but also as an epistemology, Vered Maimon challenges todays prevalent association of the early photograph with