Louis Daguerre
Early photography inventor
Louis Daguerre was a French artist and inventor who developed the daguerreotype, the first commercially practical photographic process, announced in 1839.
His method produced detailed images on silver-plated copper, launching photography as a medium.
The process bears his name, though he built on earlier work by Nicéphore Niépce.
- early photographyFirst camera-based images
- photographyCreating images from light
- cameraImage capturing device
- camera obscuraDark chamber, projected image
- silverLustrous white precious metal
silver plate · copper · metal plate · plate · exposure · exposure time · portrait · Paris · invention · mercury · image · visual arts · lens · iodine · pioneer · studio · light · chemical
- French photographers
- photographersAnnie Leibovitz, documentary photographers, Gordon Parks, portrait photographer, event photographers
- french inventorsBlaise Pascal
medium and artistic method
Louis Daguerrepainters
Those who apply pigment
J.M.W. Turner · Rembrandt · miniaturists · oil painters · watercolorists
image philosophy: objective capture vs. subjective interpretation
Louis DaguerreWilliam Blake