On January 7, 1839, an installation artist and chemist named Louis-Jacques ... was represented on the daguerreotype plate as lines and shadows of varying brightness. Daguerre initially thought ...

using a process later perfected by the artist and inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. Daguerre gave his name to the daguerreotype, the first fully-fledged form of photography, that he revealed ...

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 ...

Louis Daguerre introduced his 'daguerreotypes,' images on silver plates, to the French Academy of Sciences. This was one of the earliest successful methods of photography. In the mid-1820s ...

In 1839 Louis Daguerre agreed to work with Niepce but he died shortly before they could start. At the same time William Henry Fox Talbot was developing photography using paper not metal plates.