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 to the Opera's panorama painter. In 1814 he...

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 was born on November 18, 1787, at...

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 scenic designer who created the Diorama and invented the daguerreotype, the first...

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851) was a French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of...

Memory is our first camera, capturing imperfectly images from our youth. Such images haunt French inventor Louis Daguerre in Dominic Smith's lyrical debut novel, "The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre." The namesake 19th-century protagonist, of course, won renown for his discovery of how to...

SMITH, Dominic. The mercury vision of Louis Daguerre. Read by Stephen Hoye. 8 cds. 10.5 hrs. Blackstone Audiobooks. 2006. 0-7861-7336-x. $99.00. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. SA This historical novel, based on biographies, letters and histories of 19th-century France, is primarily the...