On the 7th of January, 1839, Louis Daguerre stunned his native country (France) by unleashing his creation upon the people. Daguerre presented and demonstrated his work to the "Acadmie De Sciences" in Paris. All were in awe at the "miraculous discovery" and thus, news of the Daguerreotype quickly spread.
As the Daguerreotype spread and finally reached Talbot in Great Britain, Talbot was shocked to find out that someone else in another country had been working on, what he thought to be, a similar project. At first he thought that both his process and Daguerre's were alike but after a more in depth analysis he found them to be quite different. Within roughly a fortnight (25th January, 1839), Talbot unveiled his work to the "Royal Society" in London.
Once Daguerre introduced his findings to the "Acadmie De Sciences", he received an annual income because he agreed to "sell" his idea to the French government (so that they could in turn offer this revolutionary invention the world).
On the other hand, once Talbot introduced his work, he unfortunately did not receive the same amount of recognition as did Daguerre. Since Talbott was a businessman he decided to run his own show and thus would sell licenses for his "product".
Although the Daguerreotype was the first method that any one had ever witnessed (when Daguerre launched his method), it was in fact Talbot's method (The Calotype) that succeeded due to the fact that, by use of negatives, any photographer/business could reproduce as many copies as they wished. Subsequently, since the Daguerreotype was rarely used by photographers, it eventually died out as a commercial process by the year 1865.
As the Daguerreotype spread and finally reached Talbot in Great Britain, Talbot was shocked to find out that someone else in another country had been working on, what he thought to be, a similar project. At first he thought that both his process and Daguerre's were alike but after a more in depth analysis he found them to be quite different. Within roughly a fortnight (25th January, 1839), Talbot unveiled his work to the "Royal Society" in London.
Once Daguerre introduced his findings to the "Acadmie De Sciences", he received an annual income because he agreed to "sell" his idea to the French government (so that they could in turn offer this revolutionary invention the world).
On the other hand, once Talbot introduced his work, he unfortunately did not receive the same amount of recognition as did Daguerre. Since Talbott was a businessman he decided to run his own show and thus would sell licenses for his "product".
Although the Daguerreotype was the first method that any one had ever witnessed (when Daguerre launched his method), it was in fact Talbot's method (The Calotype) that succeeded due to the fact that, by use of negatives, any photographer/business could reproduce as many copies as they wished. Subsequently, since the Daguerreotype was rarely used by photographers, it eventually died out as a commercial process by the year 1865.
References:
1) Bellis,M, 2013, "History of Photography and the Camera". [online]
Available - http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm
Available - http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm
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2)Wikipedia.org [online] Available - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot
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3) Wikipedia.org [online] Available - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Daguerre
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