Louis Daguerre

Background

A French artist and showman, partner of Niépce.

Contribution

Developed the daguerreotype (announced 1839), the first widely used photographic process, producing sharp images on silvered copper plates.

Associated inventions

• Photography

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Nicéphore Niépce
• William Henry Fox Talbot

Sources & further reading

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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — history of photographyThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum
• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia

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