For 10 points, name this French artist whose namesake "-otype" was the first method for creating photographs.
Hippolyte Bayard melodramatically protested the government's positive treatment of this other artist by depicting himself lying dead in a morgue in Self Portrait as a Drowned Man. An early work by this artist depicts three shelves of neatly piled Shells and Fossils. A still life by this artist depicts a framed print of an embracing couple and a cast of a ram's head on the wall behind two casts of putti on a table and a hanging wicker flask. In another of his photographs, a shadowy man having his shoe polished stands in front of a row of trees receding up an empty avenue. This man began a rivalry with Henry Fox Talbot years after the end of his coded correspondence with Joseph NicÃ©phore (*) NiÃ©pce. This photographer of Still Life in Studio and Paris Boulevard developed a process in which a silver-plated sheet of copper is treated with fumes of iodine and mercury. For 10 points, name this French artist whose namesake "-otype" was the first method for creating photographs.
Hippolyte Bayard melodramatically protested the government's positive treatment of this other artist by depicting himself lying dead in a morgue in Self Portrait as a Drowned Man.
Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre