Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
1787-1851
French Artist and Inventor
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre was born in 1787 to a middle-class family in Cormeilles, near Paris. He was an accomplished sce...
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Born on November 18, 1789, Louis J. M. Daguerre began his career as an artist, serving first as an apprentice to the chief designer of the Paris Opera and later working for nine years as an assistant ...
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Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851), a French painter and stage designer, invented the daguerreotype, the first practical and commercially successful photographic process.Louis Daguerre wa...
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