"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight."

📸 #LouisJacquesDaguerre, French artist, inventor, and pioneering photographer (daguerreotype), was #BOTD 18 November 1787. #Photography

#19Agosto #Taldíacomohoy de 1839, #LouisJacquesDaguerre presentó ante la Academia de Ciencias de #Francia su invento: el #daguerrotipo que permitía capturar una imagen a través de un proceso químico
Y ahora nos permite hacer fotografías, algunas con #MiradaMatemática
#DíaMundialdelaFotografía

"The #daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary, it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself."

📸 #LouisJacquesDaguerre, French inventor and photographer, #DOTD 10 July 1851. #Art #Photography