![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Yesterday I received an email from a camera store saying that August 19 was International Photography Day. That was interesting, thought I. Hadn't heard of that. Then again, every single day is Something Day. I meant to post about it but didn't get around to it, though I did shoot some interesting clouds around sunset that I'll do some stitching and we'll see what we get.
I decided to do a little searching and see what I could find about this International day, and I was surprised what Wikipedia said about August 19: in 1839, the French government announces that 'Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world"'! Well, that's pretty spiffy! It's one of those cases where multiple people at the same time were discovering recording images on a sort of permanent basis, not unlike the light bulb and the telephone. Louis was the most successful of the early birds and got his name most prominently mentioned in the history books.
So Vive Louis!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Daguerre
I decided to do a little searching and see what I could find about this International day, and I was surprised what Wikipedia said about August 19: in 1839, the French government announces that 'Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world"'! Well, that's pretty spiffy! It's one of those cases where multiple people at the same time were discovering recording images on a sort of permanent basis, not unlike the light bulb and the telephone. Louis was the most successful of the early birds and got his name most prominently mentioned in the history books.
So Vive Louis!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Daguerre
