Google’s Louis Daguerre Logo

By Barry Schwartz

Published: November 18, 2011 at 10:03 am

Louis Daguerre Google

On Google today is a special logo for the 224th birthday of Louis Daguerre. Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process commonly used for portraits. The process took a while, requiring the subjects to sit for several minutes as still as possible in order for the photograph to work.

The logo Google created portrays the style of the photography.

Danguerre was born in France on November 18, 1787 and died at the age of 63 on July 10, 1851 in France.

For more information on Daguerre, see his Wikipedia page.

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

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