Photography’s first artists: Bayard and Cornelius
3 min readJan 30, 2023
The late 1830’s saw the invention of photography as a new artform when Louis Daguerre publicised the daguerreotype process. When his work of Boulevard du Temple went on display it caused excitement amongst artists and observers alike as the picture was said to be free of errors and demonstrated the “advantages and wonder of the [daguerreotype] invention”. Hippolyte Bayard and Robert Cornelius became some of the notable photographers of this initial period of photography!
