Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) - Louis Daguerre was a French artist and chemist who's famous for developing the daguerrotype process of photography. The Daguerrotype was a photograph produced on a silver coated copper plate treated with iodine vapor. Daguerre's patent for the daguerrotype was recognized by the French government in 1839, leading the French to declare his invention as a gift "free to the World". Louis Daguerre died on July 10th, 1851 in Bry-sur-Marne, France. (Hunter Thomas)
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Camilo Ruiz said
at 7:53 pm on Nov 1, 2010
Louis Daguerre's invention of the Daguerrotype produced fierce competition against the portrait paints of mid-19th century America. With a quicker and more accurate method to capture the bust of an individual, the daguerrotype robbed portrait painters of business. Because there was no longer as large a market for painted portraits, many American painters turned to painting the American landscape, a romantic idea, that embodied the American movement of art away from European ideas and toward American ideas during the 1850s. Camilo Ruiz
Varun Bora said
at 6:54 am on Nov 2, 2010
The daguerreotype was critical in helping photograph the Civil War, which was the first was to have photographic documentary.
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