which inventor created an image of himself as a dead man
He eventually gave details of the process to the French Academy of Sciences on 24 February 1840 in return for money to buy better equipment. As a reaction to the injustice he felt he had been subjected to, Bayard created the first staged photograph entitled, Self Portrait as a Drowned Man. In the image, he pretends to have committed suicide, sitting and leaning to the right. Bayard wrote on the back of his most notable photograph:
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 â 14 May 1887) was a French photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839.