The Godfather – Humboldt and the Invention of Photography

In August 1839 the Parisian Academy of the Sciences revealed the secret of the first photographic process and presented it as a gift to humanity. One of the most important “godfathers” of daguerreotype, which was then offered as an “open source”, was Alexander von Humboldt, as the art historian Anna Ahrens explains in her blog in connection with the DHM exhibition “Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt”.