Daguerreotype of Louis Daguerre

• The photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre was the first commercially successful photographic process.

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The photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre was the first commercially successful photographic process. It immediately solved the practical problem of how to capture a perfect mimetic image - a 1:1 map from the real world to the image surface. Th