Happy birthday to the late louis daguerre whom would have turned 224 today had he not died at the age of 63. He invented the earliest process of creating photographs. I choose to make today's post about him not only because google is honoring him with a doodle but because I believe him to have invented one of the most important processes of our day. This man may not have invented the camera but he is a father of human culture progression. Photographs, as best used by Time magazine, can show us magnificent moments of human nature and history. A picture really does say a thousand words and can express every single human emotion possible. Everyone has heard of the nurse/solider photo from the 1920's, the fireman pulling the little girl out of the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, and really any picture of Woodstock taken show us what it was like to be in a certain moment in time. It could have been a happy or sad moment but for that split second we, the photograph viewer, get to feel just how the people did or what it was like to be in that location. I have always said humanity has already built a time machine and it can be found in almost every phone: the camera. Photographs are the result of the time travel. We are also brought together closer as a species when we view a powerful picture. Propaganda and advertisements are a more modern form of this artistic expression but can none the less move mountains of human souls. To tie this all off masses, do not view Louis Daguerre as just the man who was featured today on google. See him as the french gentleman who is responsible for starting the most important process, later device, of bringing humanity together and closer to understanding one another.
Ta ta for now, see you again when times call for it.
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