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	Louis Daguerre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daguerre announced the latest perfection of the Daguerreotype, after years of experimentation, in 1839, with the French Academy of Sciences announcing the process on January 9 of that year.
		Daguerre's patent was acquired by the French Government, and, on August 19, 1839, the French Government announced the invention was a gift "Free to the World." However, Daguerre himself deposed the patent for England on August 12, and this greatly slowed the development of photography in Great Britain.
		Daguerre died on July 10, 1851 in Bry-sur-Marne, 12 km from Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Daguerre (726 words)

	Louis Daguerre
		He assisted Pierre Prévost (1764-1823) in the execution of panoramic views of Rome, Naples, London, Jerusalem, and Athens, and subsequently (July 11, 1822), in conjunction with Bouton, he opened at Paris the Diorama, an exhibition of pictorial views, the effect of which was heightened by changes in the light thrown upon them.
		On the same day a bill was presented to the chambers, according to the provisions of which Daguerre and the heir of Niepce were to receive annuities of 6000 and 4000 francs respectively, on the condition that their process should be made known to the Academy.
		The bill having been approved at the meetings of the two chambers on the 9th of July and on the 2nd of August, Daguerre's process, together with his system of transparent and opaque painting, was published by the government, and soon became generally known.
	www.nndb.com /people/142/000083890 (356 words)

	Inductee Biographies
		Daguerre was familiar with the camera obscura as a painting aid and had improved the lenses for use during production of the diorama.
		Daguerre was an artist, not a chemist, but he was befriended by a leading French chemist, J. Dumas, who offered funds, a laboratory and advice.
		Daguerre allowed that his iodized silver plate would remain in his partnership but it would be called a "daguerreotype", as it was completely Daguerre's invention.
	www.iphf.org /inductees/ldaguerre.html (477 words)

	Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography
		In fact, Daguerre had been searching since the mid-1820s for a means to capture the fleeting images he saw in his camera obscura, a draftsman's aid consisting of a wood box with a lens at one end that threw an image onto a frosted sheet of glass at the other.
		Neither Daguerre's microscopic nor his telescopic daguerreotypes survive, for on March 8, 1839, the Diorama—and with it Daguerre's laboratory—burned to the ground, destroying the inventor's written records and the bulk of his early experimental works.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/dagu/hd_dagu.htm (676 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		DAGUERRE, LOUIS JACQUES MANDÉ [Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé], 1789-1851, French scene painter and physicist, inventor of the daguerreotype, a photograph produced on a silver-coated copper plate treated with iodine vapor.
		Known first for his illusionistic painted stage sets, Daguerre attracted further attention as the inventor and exhibitor, with C. Bouton, of the diorama (pictorial views seen with changing lighting), shown at the Diorama in Paris.
		Daguerre completed the invention of the daguerreotype alone, and in 1839 it was made public and ceded to the Academy of Sciences, only a few weeks before the rival invention of the calotype was announced by William Henry Fox Talbot.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Daguerre.asp (173 words)

	Louis Daguerre - MSN Encarta
		Louis Daguerre, full name Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851), French painter, inventor of the daguerreotype.
		After Niépce's death, Daguerre revised and refined the process upon which they had worked.
		This method of photography, which used metal plates, was the earliest widely-practiced form of photography.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570906/Louis_Daguerre.html (120 words)

	THE MERCURY VISIONS OF LOUIS DAGUERRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the spring of 1847, 58-year-old Louis Daguerre is wealthy and famous, thanks to his discovery of the process by which visual images can be given physical reality: "[H]ere was time stolen, wafered, and pressed onto silvered copper; here were nature's blueprints, transcripts of light.
		Skillfully interweaving Daguerre's memories with the present-day action, the author joins the two narrative strands when Louis learns that his nude model, Chloe, is Isobel's daughter (a wild coincidence that passes muster in the novel's dreamlike atmosphere).
		Violence, which has shadowed Daguerre's life since his birth during the French Revolution, once again marks him during the disturbances of 1848, when Louis is shot and Chloe takes him to her mother to be healed.
	www.thebookstandard.com /bookstandard/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001656339 (340 words)

	The Daguerreian Society: A History of the Daguerreotype
		Daguerre's illusions depended heavily on the accurate representation of detail and perspective on a grand scale, and so, like many others of his day, he employed the camera obscura as a tool to help him faithfully trace in two dimensions what his eyes saw in three.
		The French government realized Daguerre's dream of reward by granting pensions to both Daguerre and the late Niépce's son for their efforts, and Daguerre and Arago publicized the steps of the process on August 19, 1839, (almost) without restriction, as a gift to the world from France.
		Following the announcement, and despite his continued effort, Daguerre had very little else to do with the future of the miracle process that bore his name.
	www.daguerre.org /resource/history/history.html (1498 words)

	Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Daguerre (pronounced Dagair) was perhaps the most famous of several people who invented photography.
		Daguerre eventually concluded that this was due to the presence of mercury vapour from a broken thermometer.
		Daguerre advertised his process and sought sponsorship, but few seemed interested.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/D/Daguerre/1.html (426 words)

	''Ruins of Holyrood Chapel'' , by Louis Daguerre (1787-1851) \| Artwork of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Daguerre was apprenticed to an architect at the age of sixteen while also training as a draughtsman.
		Daguerre exhibited dioramas of the same subject in Paris from 1823 until 1824, in London from March 1825 and in Liverpool from 1825 until 1827.
		Between 1822 and 1839 Daguerre exhibited twenty dioramas in Paris and three of the scenes exhibited were related to Edinburgh ('Interior of Holyrood Chapel', Roslyn Chapel near Edinburgh and 'Edinburgh during the Fire of 15 November 1824').
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=2&id=12 (503 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre - Dominic Smith - Hardcover
		Louis Daguerre's story is set against the backdrop of a Paris prone to bohemian excess and social unrest.
		Louis enlists the help of the womanizing poet Charles Baudelaire, known to the salon set as the "Prince of Clouds," and a jaded but beautiful prostitute named Pigeon.
		In 1846, the celebrated photographer Louis Daguerre, his brain addled by the mercury process that made him famous, has a vision of the end of the world, which launches him on a quest to record a series of 10 images before the apocalypse.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0743271149&z=y&cds2Pid=9481 (1282 words)

	A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: DAGUERRE, Louis Jacques Mande
		This important discovery that a latent image could be developed made it possible to reduce the exposure time from some eight hours to thirty minutes.
		He then turned to Francois Arago, a politician, who immediately saw the implications of this process, took his case up, and the French government commissioned a report on the process, to be chaired by Paul Delaroche.
		M. Daguerre has discovered a method to fix the images which are represented at the back of a camera obscura; so that these images are not the temporary reflection of the object, but their fixed and durable impress, which may be removed from the presence of those objects like a picture or an engraving."
	www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/daguerr.htm (858 words)

	Photography in the West :: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
		By 1829, Niepce formed a partnership with an artist named Louis Daguerre, who was interested in the effects created by the camera obscura, an artist's device of the time, and the possibilities of fixing an image created by the device permanently on a surface.
		Daguerre worked on the problem for nearly ten years, and in 1835 was successful in developing an image on a copper plate coated with a silver iodized solution, using mercury vapor.
		Between 1835 and 1839, Daguerre took the world's first photographs, using this process, and in 1839, released the news of his discovery to the world.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/photography_west.html (623 words)

	Photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1839 Daguerre announced that he had invented a process using silver on a copper plate called the Daguerreotype.
		After reading about Daguerre's invention Talbot refined his process, so that it might be fast enough to take photographs of people as Daguerre had done and by 1840 he had invented the calotype process.
		The controversy began with the earliest images "written with light": Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre, and others among the very earliest photographers were met with acclaim, but some questioned if it met the definitions and purposes of art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Photographic (5273 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Books: Readings
		Daguerre was first a set designer whose hyperrealist, life-sized paintings won him fame; it was his desire to capture a scene in precise detail that lead to the development of the daguerreotype, an early photographic form.
		Daguerre is obsessed with color – he carries lapis lazuli in his pocket – and even as a lowly, apprenticed palette mixer, he's capable of reproducing nature's colors with startling exactitude.
		It's a brilliant organizing principle, but the last item on the list is Daguerre's lost love, Isobel, and the convolutions that lead him to her – through a bohemian prostitute named Pigeon – are contrived in a disappointingly predictable manner.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2006-03-10/books_readings.html (434 words)

	The Science Bookstore - Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Daguerre's discovery of photography announced by Francois Arago on 7 January 1839.
		Full details of the discovery were published 19 August 1839, loosened somewhat by the promise of a pension of 6000 franks to Daguerre (and 4000 to Isidore Niepce).
		The Daguerre process was used freely throughout the world except for in England where it was patented on 14 August 1839.
	www.thesciencebookstore.com /chron.asp?searchstring=Daguerre (181 words)

	Unlocking the Secrets of Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The turbulent period of history in which Lavoisier lived robbed the world of this brilliant scientist, whom the world has come to call the "Father of Modern Chemistry." His life was cut short by political violence, but his spirit of chemical investigation continues to live on in the research of modern science today.
		Daguerre grew up in France in the shadows of the French Revolution and came of age during an artistic revolution.
		Louis Pasteur's sharp, analytical mind and life-long devotion to science made him one of the best-known scientific researchers of all time.
	www.mitchelllane.com /uuu_files/uuu.html (3546 words)

	Documentary Tradition
		Daguerre, who had until then been unsuccessful in his attempts to produce a photographic image, improved on Niepce's experiments after his death and publicly announced his process as the 'daguerreotype' in 1839.
		The Diorama building, designed by Daguerre in simple functional style, was built in the centre of the popular entertainment district for the sole purpose of showing the huge (as large as 13.8x22 m) painting of dramatic subjects specially painted by Daguerre and Bouton.
		Daguerre's assistants at the Diorama were Hippolyte-Victor-Valentin Sebron (1801-79), whose assistance was publicly acknowledged by Daguerre and whose contribution to the development of the Diorama effect was possibly substantial, and Daguerre's brother-in-law Charles Arrowsmith (b 1798), who also supervised the construction of the London Diorama.
	timeline.cer.jhu.edu /photo/timeline.xml (11076 words)

	The American Experience \| The Wizard of Photography \| People & Events \| The Daguerreotype is Invented
		The son of a Counselor to King Louis XVI of France, Niépce survived the French Revolution with his family fortune intact, which allowed him to pursue his interest in inventions.
		Daguerre's profession naturally led him to be curious about Niépce's work, and by 1829 they were collaborating.
		In 1835 he placed his plates in a cabinet, not knowing that a container of mercury had a leak in it and was emitting vapor into the enclosed space, thus creating the first daguerreotype.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eastman/peopleevents/pande10.html (788 words)

	Louis Daguerre (1787 - 1851) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Louis Daguerre was a founder of modern photography, inventing the diorama in 1822, the daguerreotype and the first easily executed photographic process made public in 1839.
		ThÈophile Alexandre Steinlen, Veuves d"un Louis (The widows of one "Louis", 1915
		Daguerreotypy, invented in 1839 by the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was a method of capturing an image projected by a camera obscura onto silver-coated copper plates.
	wwar.com /masters/d/daguerre-louis.html (718 words)

	Daguerre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It consisted of a thin film of polished silver on a copper base, the silver surface was sensitized by putting it into a container with iodine, the iodine vapors reacted with the polished silver surface and formed a thin yellow layer of silver iodide.
		Details of the process were made public in August of 1839, and Daguerre named it the Daguerreotype.
		The picture could not be reproduced either, but this was not regarded as a disadvantage because the owner then had a one of a kind work of art.
	www.geog.ucsb.edu /~jeff/115a/history/daguerre.html (319 words)

	Newhall -Louis Jacques Daguerre
		Louis Jaques Daguerre(1799-1851)became good friends of Joseph Niepce, since the two of them were conducting similiar research in early-photography.
		Daguerre persevered, and on January 7th, 1839, his perfected process was presented to the French Academy of Sciences.
		The polished surface had a tendency to produce glare, and unless it was viewed at just the right angle, the image had a curious habit of reversing itself and appearing as a negative.
	westwood.fortunecity.com /italian/290/daguerre.html (301 words)

	Seeing is Believing
		The process that became known as the daguerreotype was first announced early in 1839 to the Chambre des Députés by François Dominique Arago, an astronomer, physicist, chemist, and member of the Chambre.
		Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce had been working to perfect Niépce's invention, and had tried without success to market the process.
		Arago was instrumental in arranging that the French government acquire the invention and give it to the world, in exchange for granting pensions to Daguerre and to Niépce's son Isidore.
	seeing.nypl.org /258bt.html (128 words)

	GuideLive.com \| Arts/Entertainment News and Events \| Dallas-Fort Worth \| The Dallas Morning News \| Arts & Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That's because The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre is a dream-laden portrait of mid-19th-century Paris and Louis Daguerre, the pioneer of photography who, as the book starts, has begun to hallucinate after years of handling mercury in his daguerrotype process.
		Louis Daguerre and the bohemian poet Baudelaire search Paris' Latin Quarter for a woman who will pose nude for Daguerre's camera – before the end of the world arrives, the one that Daguerre keeps seeing in his hallucinations:
		Louis stood and clicked his heels together in a sudden display of officiousness.
	www.guidelive.com /sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-smith_0321gl.State.Edition1.1c56485.html (1212 words)

	AllRefer.com - Louis Jacques MandE Daguerre (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Louis Jacques MandE Daguerre, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
		Louis Jacques MandE Daguerre[lwE zhAk mANdA´ dAgAr´] Pronunciation Key, 1789–1851, French scene painter and physicist, inventor of the daguerreotype, a photograph produced on a silver-coated copper plate treated with iodine vapor.
		In 1829 his experiments with the daguerreotype were joined with those of J. NicEphore Niepce, who had been doing related work since 1814.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Daguerre.html (319 words)

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