Louis Daguerre is believed to have captured the first photo of people in Paris, France.

据信，路易·达盖尔在法巴黎拍摄了第一张人物照片。

He was also a supporter of Daguerre's, and after being shown successful Daguerreotypes in late 1838, he set out to arrange a deal with the French government to purchase the rights to the invention.

他也是达盖尔的支持者，在1838年末看到了成功的达盖尔的照片后，他开始着手与法达成协议，购买这项发明的权利。

The age of the camera and the age of the photograph began on the day Louis-Jacques Daguerre made an image using his new daguerreotype process of a Parisian street.

相机和照片的时代开始于路易·雅克·达盖尔用他新发明的银版摄影法拍摄出一张巴黎街头照的那一天。

Daguerre was awarded a lifetime government pension, and the principle credit for inventing photography, sealing his place in the history books.

达盖尔被授予终身津贴，并因发明摄影术而获得主要荣誉，这使他在中占有一席之地。

That would be this guy: fellow Frenchman Louis Daguerre.

法人路易斯·达盖尔。

He wanted photography to be France's gift to the world, and Daguerre was going to be the man to deliver it.

他想让摄影成为法献给世界的礼物，而达盖尔将是这个礼物的传递者。

Daguerre had already made a name for himself and captured the public's attention in the 1820s with popular interactive art shows, called “dioramas.”

19世纪20年代，达盖尔已经成名，并通过名为“透视画”的流行互动艺术展览吸引了公众的注意力。

“The government which has been only too generous to Monsieur Daguerre, has said it can do nothing for Monsieur Bayard, and the poor wretch has drowned himself.”

“对达盖尔先生太慷慨了，却说不能帮助贝亚德先生，这可怜的家伙淹死了。”

See this 1838 picture by Louis Daguerre?

看到路易斯达盖尔 1838 年的这幅画了吗？

Daguerre invented the technology to produce these early photographs.

达盖尔发明了这项生产早期照片的技术。

So, Daguerre, as I said, was a scene painter and he specialized in making these very, very realistic paintings that he would put on fabric and then illuminate, but they weren't realistic enough, right?

所以，正如我所说， 达盖尔是一位场景画家，他专门制作这些极其逼真的画作， 将它们绘制在布料上并加以照明，但这些画作还不够逼真， 对吧？

Louis Daguerre of France was the inventor of this first photographic process. The technology was very popular in the United States in the middle of the 1800s.

法的 Louis Daguerre 是第一个摄影过程的发明者。 该技术在 1800 年代中期在美非常流行。

The man who invented it was Daguerre, also French.

发明它的人是达盖尔， 也是法人。

I think Daguerre's images himself, they're fascinating because they're so old.

我认为达盖尔的那些照片本身就非常迷人，因为它们年代如此久远。

Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's method.

很快， 其他人开始使用达盖尔的方法。

Daguerre wrote a pamphlet that gave everybody guidance on how to use a daguerreotype.

达盖尔撰写了一本小册子，为人们使用银版摄影术提供了指导。

But broadly speaking, a man called Louis Daguerre, a French scene painter, announced his new process called a daguerreotype to the world in 1839.

大体而言，1839年，法场景画家路易斯·达盖尔向世界宣布了他的新发明——银版照相法。