Louis Daguerre was a French artist and one of the early inventors of photography. His daguerreotype—silver-plated sheets of copper exposed to light, mercury fumes, and salt water—forever altered the ...

When Louis Daguerre presented his brand-new photographic technique in 1839, Donné leapt at the chance to modify it to capture his microscopic images to spice up his lectures to ever-growing audiences.

The first photograph of a living person was taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838. The photo depicts a figure on an otherwise empty avenue in Paris in the middle of an afternoon. But there’s an ...

Michael Mosley describes the scientific achievements of Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1826 Nicephore Niepce took the first photograph. In 1839 Louis Daguerre agreed to work with ...

Louis Daguerre, avec son daguerréotype, a permis à la photographie de Nièpce de faire une grande avancée technologique. Les inventions de Louis Daguerre en image et en photographie ont permis ...