Daguerre
Americannoun
noun
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The man behind the technique, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, claimed to have invented photography in France in 1839.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
Tuesday’s announcement will affect the Daguerre Point Dam near the Northern California city of Marysville.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2023
The family, who wishes to remain unknown, had asked Malo de Lussac of auctioneers Daguerre Val de Loire to estimate the value of their house but instead discovered a masterpiece.
From Reuters ● Mar. 27, 2023
The photographic processes devised by such 1830s pioneers as Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot were influential but soon abandoned.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022
In 1841, only two years later, an assistant to Daguerre, Andre Le Fevre, was arrested in the Tuileries Gardens for attempting to sell a gentleman a picture of the woman and the pony.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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