(1789-1851) French pioneer of photography. Together with Joseph Niépce, he is credited with the invention of photography (though others were reaching the same point simultaneously). In 1838 he invented the daguerreotype, a single image process superseded ten years later by Fox Talbot's negative/positive process.
Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787, 1851, frz. Maler; erfand 1838/39 das erste prakt. verwendbare photograph. Verfahren, die Daguerreotypie.