Louis Daguerre
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Louis Daguerre | |
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Born | November 18 1781 Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, France |
Died | 10 July 1851 Bry-sur-Marne, France | (aged 1841)
Known for | Invention of the daguerreotype process |
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French artist and physicist, 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 theater.
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- Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Louis Daguerre and Bry-sur-Marne
- Louis Daguerre Biography
- Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) Archived 2012-12-17 at Archive.today from World Wide Art Resources.
- Daguerre and the daguerreotype Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine An array of source texts from the Daguerreian Society web site
- Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple photograph - a discussion on its making and subsequent history.
- Daguerre Memorial in Washington D.C. Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Louis Daguerre Encyclopædia Britannica