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Daguerre

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Da·guerre  (d-gâr, dä-gr), Louis Jacques Mandé 1789-1851.
French artist and inventor of the daguerreotype process for obtaining positive photographic prints.
Daguerre (French) [dagɛr]
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(Biographies / Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé (1789-1851) M, French, TECHNOLOGY: inventor, TECHNOLOGY: inventor) Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789-1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
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Noun1.Daguerre - French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851)
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
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Thanks to French painter and dioramist Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851) and the daguerreotype and to Englishman, mathematician, and chemist William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) and his calotype and paper negative we were freed to look at the world, and ourselves, in new ways.
DEJA VIEWS; SANTA FE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGACY by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
In 1839, competing claims for the invention of the photographic process were made by Louis Daguerre in France and Henry Fox Talbott in England, establishing that year as the birthdate of photography.
Corvallis show celebrates photography by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Le Prince, who grew up in the company of his father's friend, Louis Daguerre, mysteriously vanished from a train between Dijon and Paris in September 1890, some weeks prior to a planned public demonstration in the U.
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