The history of Louis Daguerre as a landscape photographer is noted by his being the first photographer to ever photograph a person the image was known as the "Boulevard du Temple.”
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While taking a long exposure of a Paris street scene, he captured a person who had stopped to get a shoeshine. That image was captured in late 1838 or early 1839 after Daguerre had fully developed the daguerreotype after working with Niépce, a French inventor who is noted as the individual to take the first permanent image in 1825.
Daguerre and Niépce worked together on the development of a faster process to capture images. Niépce died and Daguerre went on to complete the development of what became known as the Daguerreotype process of imaging.
Daguerre was originally a painter who was known for his theatrical paintings and for the introduction of the Diorama style of painting.
Daguerre’s Diorama became a popular theatrical event in the early to mid 1800s. The folks viewing the event would see his paintings of various scenes change spectacularly as they viewed the exhibition in a specially lit theater.
On March 8, 1839, a most unfortunate and devastating fire turned Daguerre’s astonishing Diorama and his laboratory along with his many records of experiments and many early photographic pieces and dioramas into rubble.
The sad truth of the fire was that it burned
nearly all of Daguerre’s early photographic images only a few still-lifes and some Parisian street scenes survived the fire.
The daguerreotype photographic process went on to popularize the portrait with numerous studios cropping up across France.
The daguerreotype also became a popular medium in America with Studios opening in every nook and cranny the United States and also spurning the traveling daguerreotype photographer.Everyone wanted their image preserved for posterity!
The process was also used to document battlefield images of the American Civil War. Gettysburg Pennsylvania had several portrait studios when the genre was in its heyday!
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