World's First Photograph - Year 1826 - few more interesting photos
World's First Photograph
Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscura, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.
source: World's First Photograph
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First Ever Photograph of a Human Being
This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy that invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Aside from its distinction of being a super early photograph, it’s also the first photograph to ever include a human being. Because the image required an exposure time of over ten minutes, all the people, carriages, and other moving things disappear from the scene. However, in the bottom left hand corner is a man who just so happened to stay somewhat still during the shot — he was having his shoes shined.
source: First Ever Photograph of a Human Being
http://cdn.petapixel.com/assets/uplo.../boulevard.jpg
It’s interesting how sheer luck earned the guy a place in the history of photography. Too bad we’ll probably never know his identity.
http://cdn.petapixel.com/assets/uplo...boulevard2.jpg
Robert Cornelius, first self-portrait, taken at age 29 in 1839
http://www.vhscloud.com/blog/wp-cont...Photo1839.jpeg
1854 - Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London
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