SYMHC Classics: Louis Daguerre

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This 2021 episode covers Louis Daguerre, who comes up almost any time we mention photography. Well before he figured out how to capture images through a camera obscura, he was an artist and innovator in entertainment.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
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0:07.8	Just stories.
0:09.5	Spoken without fear.
0:11.4	A person who is not generous can not be an artist.
0:14.2	The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers.
0:18.9	Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abh show and the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
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0:28.0	Come for the honesty.
0:29.7	Stay for the fire.
0:35.7	Happy Saturday.
0:37.1	We're following up this week's episode on Elizabeth Fulheim and her connections to the world of photography with our episode on Louis DeGare, inventor of the Degereotype.
0:47.3	This episode originally came out December 27, 2021.
0:51.5	Enjoy.
0:54.9	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I-Heart Radio.
1:05.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.
1:08.5	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
1:10.7	You have probably noticed that there's a name
1:13.4	that pops up pretty much any time we're discussing photography in history. And that is Degere.
1:20.3	We have referenced him and his Degera types and the invention of that many times on the show.
1:26.2	And we often use it as a reference point
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