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Author Smith, Dominic, 1971- author

Title The mercury visions of Louis Daguerre / Dominic Smith
Published Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin, 2017
©2006

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Description xii, 354 pages ; 20 cm
Summary 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
Subject Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851 -- Fiction.
Photographers -- France -- Fiction.
Mercury in the body -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Reading nook.
ISBN 9781760296377 (paperback)
1760296376 (paperback)