Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre Research Paper

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Daguerreotype (pronounced duh-gay-row-type) was a first practical method of photography. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre created this form of art, putting the entire camera together. In a following years, other inventors added their own upgrades. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (Lwee Zak Man-day Duh-gair) was born on November 18, 1787 near Paris France. Daguerre was a very artistic boy and pursued art into his teenage years. At 16, Daguerre became an apprentice in theatre, taking part in designing backgrounds and setting up lights for plays and operas. Helping with a backgrounds got Daguerre interested in painting, trying to make his work look as real as possible Deciding that he liked a work that he was doing, daguerre became a co-owner of a Diorama Theatre. To help with his paintings, Daguerre used a camera obscura to make his outlines. He eventually moved on to painting extensive panoramas to use for a plays. …show more content…

Niepce had created a heliograph, meaning “drawn by a sun.” It worked by loading a camera obscura with a pewter plate covered with bitumen of Judea, a black light-sensitive material that hardens when exposed to light. In order for an image to appear, the plate would’ve been exposed for 8 hours. Daguerre and Niepce had many experiments until they finally had the perfect camera. Step one in using the camera, was to coat a copper plate with silver, buffing it until smooth and free of any scratches. Step two, was to place the plate in a box held over iodine vapor, then moved to a box with bromine, and then back to iodine. They continued moving it back and forth until a plate reached a purplish color. Step three, they loaded a plate into a camera, ready for exposure. To develop the picture, a plate was held over mercury. Step four, the plate is then fixed for permanency by sodium thiosulfate, removing the excess chemicals. The fifth, and final step, was to rinse a plate with distilled water, toned with gold chloride, and then dried with a

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