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Daguerre

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Daguerre
Louis Jacques Mand? . 1789--1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)


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His deadpan, truthful rendering of the faces and clothing of the bourgeoisie announces a new language of realism that fore-shadows a lineage running from Daguerre to Chuck Close.
1837 - Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype, the first practical form of photographic reproduction.
But when Morse was in Paris in 1839 seeking a French patent for that, he visited the studio of Louis Daguerre and saw the first images on the Frenchman's silver-coated copper plates.
 
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