An Honoré Daumier caricature shows a pioneer of this medium almost falling out of a hot air balloon. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this medium that was “elevated” to the “height of art” by men like Nadar. In the 1840s, this medium became widely available to the French public through the daguerreotype process.
ANSWER: photography
[10m] The first photograph of a human is a daguerreotype of one of these places in Paris that shows a man getting his shoe shined. A green post bisects a painting of one of these places titled for a Rainy Day.
ANSWER: streets [accept Paris Street; Rainy Day; accept Boulevard du Temple; accept roads, thoroughfares, avenues, boulevards, lanes, or alleys]
[10h] This inventor worked with Daguerre to create a precursor to the daguerreotype that used lavender oil. This man earlier took the oldest photograph, which captured the View from the Window at Le Gras.
ANSWER: Nicéphore Niépce
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