marble plate fixed to the wall of the wall of the barracks Vérines, 10th Street Leon Jouhaux paris, indicates the location of the diorama and laboratory Louis Daguerre, destroyed by fire in 1839 It is a drawn picture of what appears to be a travel photo album of a group of friends in the late nineteenth century the photos appear to be thrown later because of s Ppios XX, in our opinion
the communiqué today we speak of historical photo extracted from a particular album & nbsp late, in the nineteenth century. In it, is immortalized the act of reading which was presented the marble plaque attached to the wall of the wall of the barracks Vérines on Calle Leon Jouhaux, Paris, where he . your setting the diorama and lab Louis Daguerre, destroyed in a fire in 1839
Without a doubt, this is a single photograph, with a high testimonial value, after more than 100 years , maintains an exceptional state of preservation. If you look in detail, we see clear reflections in blue hue, which is none other than silver . This component has been key in the history and progress of photography, from its origins with Niepce, even the most modern photographic papers.
for the first photographs, they were made in aristotype paper, as explained in a previous statement, and the image was obtained through direct blackening of a deposit dispersed silver in a binder (gelatin, collodion, casein, etc.) Hence the blue reflections we see in the image. And precisely Luois Daguerre was one of the greatest exponents in the beginning of photography
Louis Daguerre was the first popularizer of photography, inventing the daguerreotype from previous experiences Niépce in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. In fact, he knew selling so well that the French government bought the patent for the daguerreotype in July 1839 for an annual pension of 6000 francs to Daguerre and 4000 francs for the son of Joseph Niépce, because then everyone could use it freely .
But above this painter and stage decorator Daguerre designed the diorama, a visual spectacle that became popular between 1822 and 1880 Paris, London and Scotland. It was a theatrical expediency presented to the public in a room specially designed by Daguerre. Viewers watched a landscape painting whose appearance was changing
Because of its great impact on Parisian society, the French Government to pay homage wanted to Louis Daguerre with a marble plaque commemorating , which even today is still present in the streets of Paris, specifically in the beginning of the street Léon-Jouhaux, as can be seen in the following view of Google-Maps.
on the marble plaque can read the following inscription:
Here I was from 1822 to 1839
the diorama of Daguerre
and laboratory
where perfected the invention by Nicéphore Niépce
discovered the daguerreotype
