# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-daguerre
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:14:14.241Z

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name: "Louis Daguerre"
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description: "He gave the nineteenth century its first clear reflection: a silver-plated mirror that could trap a face, a street, a moment, and hold it still forever."
tagline: "French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was born on 18 November 1787 in France, and spent his early career as a painter and scenic designer before turning his attention to the diorama theatre, a popular illusion that layered light and painted transparencies. The leap to photography came through his invention of the daguerreotype process, a method that fixed images onto silver-plated copper and made him one of the fathers of photography. The technique bore his name and changed how the world saw itself, turning fleeting light into permanent record. He died on 10 July 1851, decades before the daguerreotype would be displaced by faster, cheaper methods, but the foundation was his.