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Detail of Hippolyte Bayard’s ‘Self-portrait as a Drowned Man.’ Bayard believed he had invented photography but was pre-empted by Daguerre. He made this sardonic self portrait in 1840 in response to his erasure from photographic history.
Detail of Hippolyte Bayard’s ‘Self-portrait as a Drowned Man.’ Bayard believed he had invented photography but was pre-empted by Daguerre. He made this sardonic self portrait in 1840 in response to his erasure from photographic history.