The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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When the vision came, he was in the bathtub. So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, after a decade of using poisonous mercury vapors to cure his daguerreotype images, his mind is plagued by delusions. Believing the world will end within one year, Daguerre creates his "Doomsday List" -- ten items he must photograph before the final day. The list includes a portrait of Isobel Le Fournier, a woman he has always loved but not spoken to in half a century.
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PUBLISHED
New York : ATRIA Books, c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 306 p ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0743271149 :
SUBJECTS
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, -- 1787-1851 -- Fiction.
Photographers -- France -- Fiction.
Mercury in the body -- Fiction.