Biography of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
18 November 1787
10 July 1851
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis on 18 November 1787. French artist and chemist is famous for the invention that bears his name, the Daguerreotype is the first photographic process for developing images. The young Louis spent his childhood at Orléans, where his father worked as a clerk in the estate of the King; mom is Leda Sowed and works she too real in the Embassy. Louis began working at the set designer of the Paris Opera building over time considerable experience in the field of design and set design. Daguerre was one of the students of the first French painter of landscapes, the artist Pierre Prévost.
Painter and stage designer theatrical will these to invent the use of diorama in the Theatre: it is a kind of painted backdrop with the help of the darkroom, on which are projected lights and different intensity color so that you can achieve very special scenic effects. Starting from the year 1824 began his first experiments to try to fix the images obtained through the darkroom. Starts a correspondence with Joseph Niépce, photographer and researcher: six years after the death of the latter Daguerre manage to complete his research done to develop his technique that will take as anticipated just its name: the Daguerreotype. This technique and this process, will be published in 1839 by scientist François Arago in two separate sessions: one at the Académie des Sciences and the other at the Académie des Beaux Arts. The invention is made then in the public domain: earn to Louis Daguerre a lifelong pension. Louis Daguerre died in Bry-sur-Marne (France) on 10 April 1851, at the age of 63 years.
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10 July 1851
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis on 18 November 1787. French artist and chemist is famous for the invention that bears his name, the Daguerreotype is the first photographic process for developing images. The young Louis spent his childhood at Orléans, where his father worked as a clerk in the estate of the King; mom is Leda Sowed and works she too real in the Embassy. Louis began working at the set designer of the Paris Opera building over time considerable experience in the field of design and set design. Daguerre was one of the students of the first French painter of landscapes, the artist Pierre Prévost.
Painter and stage designer theatrical will these to invent the use of diorama in the Theatre: it is a kind of painted backdrop with the help of the darkroom, on which are projected lights and different intensity color so that you can achieve very special scenic effects. Starting from the year 1824 began his first experiments to try to fix the images obtained through the darkroom. Starts a correspondence with Joseph Niépce, photographer and researcher: six years after the death of the latter Daguerre manage to complete his research done to develop his technique that will take as anticipated just its name: the Daguerreotype. This technique and this process, will be published in 1839 by scientist François Arago in two separate sessions: one at the Académie des Sciences and the other at the Académie des Beaux Arts. The invention is made then in the public domain: earn to Louis Daguerre a lifelong pension. Louis Daguerre died in Bry-sur-Marne (France) on 10 April 1851, at the age of 63 years.
Article contributed by the team of collaborators.