Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mand

In 1839, Romantic painter and printmaker Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre revealed an invention to the... 

Draper s greatest fame perhaps derives from his contributions to early photography. Although the first real photograph was reported in 1827, it was a very poor image. The first really useful photography was based upon a technique developed by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre (1789-1851) and publicly announced in 1839. 

Figure 2.6 Portrait of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, the inventor of daguerreotype, the forerunner of modern photography. (Published with permission from the Deutsches Museum, Munich.)...

Through further optical and chemical processes that need not be described here, a realistic portrayal of the scene is eventually obtained. The process is termed photography ( light-writing ). A number of men contributed to the new technique, including the French physicist Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765-1833), the French artist Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1789-1851), and the English inventor William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77). 

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