Books: Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography. And the Selfie.
Above: Le Noyé (The Drowned Man), about October 18, 1840, Hippolyte Bayard.
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Hippolyte Bayard never got the attention he deserved as one of the inventors of photography. And he knew it.
While working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance in the late 1830s and early 1840s, …
