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Daguerre Louis Jacques Mand? . 1789--1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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