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 ...

This date recognises Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's invention ... "View from the Window at Le Gras" (1822-1827) is supposedly the world's first photograph. It's a heliographic image created ...

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 ...

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 ...