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Louis Daguerre
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
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| Born | 18 November 1781 Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, France
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| Died | 10 July 1851 (aged 63) Bry-sur-Marne, France
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| Known for | Invention of the daguerreotype process |
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French artist and physicist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. Though he is most famous for his contributions to photography, he was also an accomplished painter and a developer of the diorama theater.
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"Boulevard du Temple", taken by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris, includes the earliest known candid photograph of a person. The image shows a busy street, but because the exposure had to continue for several minutes the moving traffic is not visible. At the lower left, however, a man apparently having his boots polished, and the bootblack polishing them, were motionless enough for their images to be captured.
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An engraving of Daguerre during his career
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Portrait of Louis Daguerre.
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Portrait by Charles Meade, 1848.
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The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel.