Sunday, August 19, 2007

 

This Day in the Slow Death of Painting as Art



On this day in 1839, Louis Daguerre announced the invention of the daguerreotype photographic process, the first process to allow an image to be chemically fixed as a permanent picture. Below on the right is the first proto-photograph with people in it--of Paris in 1839.

(h/t) Today in Science History


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