Notice to the Reader.
The plates of the present work are impressed by the
agency of Light alone, without any aid whatever from
the artist’s pencil.
from Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, 1844, 5-line “Notice”
it continues :
They are sun-pictures themselves,
and not, as some persons have imagined, engravings in
imitation
Fotosatz means a technically
filmsetting also
Lichtsatz, Filmsatz or
Photosatz, in German. The work was done in this technique.
As well Satz means grammatically sentence or Aussage / a statement.