Daguerre ou la naissance de la photographie

 

Cinematic tale of the adventure of photography, by means of evoking the fate of Louis Jacques Daguerre (1787-1851).

"…I'm thinking of something a friend of mine said to me 25 years ago (…) 'You see' he told me, 'I am a man who likes to understand before I affirm.' (…) But his aphorism, has become a sort of personal motto to me, which I say as a joke, but which, I believe, is the most serious definition of intelligence. Intelligence is to understand before affirming. It means one seeks [...]

Duration

29 min

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