Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

The first diorama was created by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre in the early 1800s.

Gardner certainly was not the first person to alter reality through the use of photography In many ways, images were being altered every time a photographer picked up a camera, since the work of Frenchman Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre in 1839.

The Eastman House collections range from the works of pioneers Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot to the 20th-century photographs of Ansel Adams, Lewis Hine, and Alfred Stieglitz.