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Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
The Alchemist of Light and the Architect of the Instant: Louis Daguerre and the Birth of Mechanical Memory
Portrait of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, period lithograph or engraving based on an original daguerreotype. Unknown author.
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The figure of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre stands on the horizon of the history of art and science as a two-faced colossus: on one side, the last great illusionist of the pre-photographic era, master of trompe-l'œil and the Diorama; on the other, the first true "fixer" of objective reality.
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