| Life 1837 n3826, Parisian stage designer Louis Daguere leaned of Nicphore Niépce’shelograpy and promotyimportuned Népceto share is ideas. The men parinered in 829, bu Nigpce died in'33 By 837, Daguerre had developed a proces by which an mage could be azen wth exposures ofminutes rather than hours. The daguerreotype ld toa boomin photography nan 840 magazine account, Edgar Alan Poe said it “must undoubtedly be regard as the mast mpartant, ond perhaps the most exvaordinry turnph of moder science.” Photograph by Louis DaguerreAn Autochrome 1909 Early efforts to render photographs in colo, at fst using plates coated with silver chloride, date 0 848; they were generally unsuccessful Two decades later, drawing from ideas about color decomposition forwarded by Scatish scientist James Clerk Maxwell, Louis Ducos du Hauron made a calor picture by superienposing three photos of one subject, shot through diferent ftrs. twas left to the Lumigre brothers, famous as pioneering filmmakers, to develop a single-plate color process, which they did in 2904, Below: a Paris aircraft exhibit shot in Autachrome, the Lumidce method. Photograph by Léon Gimple Société Francaise de Photographie, PatsUncut Sheet of Cartes de Visite c.1860 In the 28506, the calling card changed when cartes de vilte—2')" by 4” albumen prints maunted fon cards—became de rigueur in French socely, then in the US. “Card portraits, as everybody knows, have become the social currency, the ‘green-backs' of civilization,” wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1863, The photo 0 is a must-have for coming and going in today’s world, Photograph by Andeé Adolphe Disdésl Gerasheim Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Sarah Bernhardt 1864. ‘The Divine Sarah was but 20, and just on her way fo becoming one ofthe theater's immortals, when ‘ie petouaued the Feu photugrapiet Nava to preserve er delicate beauty on Ml. Navar’sParslan studio was a magnet for uch luminaries as Baudelaire and Delacroix, who wanted to pose in the Informal Nadar manne. Ofcourse, those seeking fame would ever more find the camera iesistble, ‘except, perhaps, when paparazzi became so intrusive as to menace. The need to be photographed and the apparent human need to see these photos has led to the present, disturbing cult of celebrity Photograph by Madar 16 EB He atts