Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre ( 1787 – 1851 ):

French researcher, he had invented the Diorama: Huge images that he could move, combined with lights and sounds, all together had  sense of dimension and sense of being inside the picture.

Because he needed very realistic images for his dioramas he became interested in the work of Niépce.

Finally he and Niépce ended  associated, when the second died Daguerre following the research and invented the Daguerreotype.

The first photography that shows a human "Boulevard du Temple,1839".

"The Louvre"

Besides the photography he also was a very good painter. Here some of his paintings: 

"Interior of Rosslyn Chapel"

"Ruins of Holyrood Chapel"