Worlds oldest photographs

4 December 2009 2 Comments

Written by Jibin mathews

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i am always fascinated by history.i used to search the net trying to find about the world in the old days.to see the world..in other words i was really impressed by an idea of time travel.so here are some photos of the old days.the links to the sites who originally posted them.

‘photos are more important cos unlike paintings they capture the real images..

One summer day in France in 1826, Joseph Niepce took the world’s first photograph. It’s a photo of some farm buildings and the sky. It took an exposure time of 8 hours.great na ! see the photo wow..the buildings trees 183 years ago..

oldest known photograph of a human being in existence. It depends on how one defines photograph, but this was taken by Louis Jacques-Mande Daguerre in 1838.Boulevard du Temple in Paris. This is a busy street and there was tons of traffic, but since the exposure was so long, about 15-20 minutes, none of the moving figures can be seen. The only people visible are a guy getting his boots polished and the bootblack. Who was this nameless gentleman or the bootblack? No one knows. I’m sure they never imagined that they had been immortalized, albeit anonymously, by a clever scientist testing his newly discovered method of preserving moments in time.

wow..people 171 years ago..i really liked the description the author of dougs world blog gave “immortalized by time”..true isnt it ?

In 1839, Robert Cornelius, a Dutch chemist who immigrated to Philadelphia, took a daguerreotype portrait of himself outside of his family’s store and made history: he made the world’s first human photograph!

You’re looking at Dorothy Catherine Draper, sister of NYU professor John Draper and model for the first daguerreotype portrait of a woman in the United States in 1839. She was the first woman to be photographed with her eyes open!