Inquiry #5: Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man

2. This was Hippolyte Bayard's photo.
3. He made this photo in 1840.
4. He made the photo because he felt he had been subjected to an injustice among the photography world.  He had been asked to keep how he made his photos a secret so that a rival daguerrotype style could be patented.  He made this photo to represent his feelings of injustice. The public believed that he was dead.  It was the first photo that was intended to fool the masses.
5. Hippos kill about 2,900 people every year.
6. The French word for hippopotamus is "hippopotame."