Saturday, August 29, 2015

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 –1851)

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 –1851) 


He was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. Though he is most famous for his contributions to photography, he was also an accomplished painter and a developer of the diorama theatre.


 "Boulevard du Temple", taken by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris, includes the earliest known candid photograph of a person. The image shows a street, but because of the over ten-minute exposure time the moving traffic does not appear. At the lower left, however, a man apparently having his boots polished, and the bootblack polishing them, were motionless enough for their images to be captured.




 Shells and Fossils 1839, by LOUIS JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE
The first daguerrotype , method which first gave the world the joy of photography




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