Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence
Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence;Hércules Florence;Hercules Florence
Place: Torquay
Born: 1804
Death: 1879
Biography:
Hércules Florence was a Monegasque-Brazilian painter and inventor, known for inventing photography in Brazil in 1834, three years before Daguerre, using the matrix negative/positive, still in use. He referred to his process as photographie in French in 1834, at least four years before John Herschel coined the English word photography. Florence was born in Torquay, Devon, England, and died in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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