Considering what a large part of this blog is devoted to photographs, I would be remiss if I failed to include this picture of the Daguerre Monument.
The French artist Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851) became interested in the 1820s in trying to capture images photographically. In August 1839 his "Daguerreotype" technique--fixing an image on a light-sensitive, polished silver plate--was announced to the public. This was the first photographic process to be used widely in Europe and the United States.
In 1890 the Professional Photographers of America donated this monument to Daguerre, by the American sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley, to the American people. The bronze figure was cast by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company of New York. Placed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum Building (now know as the Arts and Industries Building) to the celebrate the first half-century of photography, the monument was displayed on the Mall from 1897 to 1969.
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