On August 19, 1839, French artist and physicist Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, after announcing his invention to the French Academy of Sciences, went public with his newly developed photographic process called Daguerrotype, the wold's first practicable photographic process.
On April 5, 1820, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon better known under his pseudonym Nadar, war born. He is considered to be one of the first grand masters of photography, besides being a caricaturist, a journalist, a novelist, and also a reknown balloonist.
On March 7, 1765, French inventor Nicéphore Niépce was born, who is best known as one of the inventors of photography and a pioneer in the field. He developed heliography, a technique used to produce the world's first known photograph in 1825.
On February 21, 1947, American scientist and inventor Edwin Land introduced the very first instant camera together with an associated film. Land's new camera would allow people to produce a black and white photograph in about sixty seconds. The new film already contained the necessary chemicals to develop and fix the image directly on the photographic paper.
Mystisch gehts heute weiter. Die zweite Geschichte von Edgar Allan Poe, die wir fotografisch in Szene gesetzt haben, heißt "Berenice". Im Studio eines Freundes haben wir eine kleine Gruft eingerichtet. Dafür habe ich tagelang Blätter zusammengesammelt und getrocknet. Das Ergebnis freut sicher auch Zahnärtze ;-).