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Louis Daguerre

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Photography Pioneer

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Film and Media Atlas. "Louis Daguerre." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/louis-daguerre.

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Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Louis Daguerre. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/louis-daguerre

BibTeX

@misc{filmandmediaatlas-louis-daguerre,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Louis Daguerre},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://media.interactiveatlas.org/figures/louis-daguerre},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

French artist and showman who turned Niepce's experiments into the daguerreotype, the first practical photographic process, announced to the world by the French government in 1839. The finely detailed one-of-a-kind daguerreotype plate made portrait photography a business within a few years.

Facts

Birth Year

1787 1

Death Year

1851 1

Nationality

French 1

Defining Contribution

The daguerreotype, the first practical photographic process, announced 1839 2

Cross-Tradition Connections

Technologies Developed

Daguerreotype

Built on the earlier experiments of his partner Nicephore Niepce.

Source National Science and Media Museum Official Site

Sources

1. Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source

2. National Science and Media Museum Official Site

National Science and Media Museum, Science Museum GroupView the Source

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