The mercury visions of Louis Daguerre
Subtitle: a novel
By: Dominic Smith
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ATRIA Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780743271141
Subjects: Photographers; Mercury in the body; Fiction
Description: 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.