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The Wonderful World of Early Photography.

Alex Santoso • Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 1:43 AM • 0

If we take a look at the state of photography today, such as the advances of

digital camera, artful image manipulation by photoshop, and even the role of

paparazzi in media - and the pervasiveness of photographic images in our

lives, it is easy to forget that the first photograph ever was taken just 180

years ago.

Photography was probably an inevitable invention - the surprise was that it

took so long for it to develop, especially given that the scientific principles that

are responsible for it - physical principles such as our understanding of lens

and optics and chemical processes that are required to affix permanent

images, have actually been known for long before the invention of the first

photograph.

The development of photography was quite fast: since Niépce took the world's

first photograph in 1826, it took only about 30 years for photograph became a

product for mass consumption with the introduction of carte-de-visite. Before

long, the world's first concealed cameras were introduced to help detectives

document the dalliances of cheating spouses!

But enough small talk - let's take a look at some fun facts about the

development of early photography, famous and "first" photos, weird cameras,

and more:

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Before we talk about the birth of modern photography, let's talk a little about

an ancient technique that served as a precursor - say, "proto-photography" if

you will.

This device is called a camera obscura (latin for dark chamber). It is literally a

dark room or a box with a small hole in one wall. An inverted image from

outside the hole would appear on the opposite wall. This device could thus be

used to aid drawing (artist could trace the outline of the image on a canvas

hung on the wall) and was considered quite significant in the development of

proto-photography.

The invention of camera obscura (latin for dark chamber) was attributed to an

islamic mathematician, astronomer, and physicist named Ibn al-Haitham [wiki]

or better known as Alhazen, in the 11th century Egypt. However, the principle

of camera obscura was probably known to thinkers as early as Aristotle (300

BC).

Camera obscura was widely known to early scientists: Roger Bacon, Leonardo

da Vinci, Johannes Kepler, and Athanasius Kircher [wiki] all wrote about this

optical device.

Giphantie: Prediction of the Invention of

Photography

In 1760, decades before the invention of

photography, French author Charles-François

Tiphaigne de la Roche predicted its invention.

In a story titled Giphantie (yes, an anagram of his

name), Tiphaigne de la Roche wrote about a race

of secret supermen in an imaginary wonderland

who could fix a reflected image onto a canvas

coated with a sticky substance!

Link [Google Translation]

World's First Photograph


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The grainy picture above is the world's first photograph called "View from the

Window at Le Gras" (circa 1826), taken and developed by French

photographer pioneer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. He called this process

"heliography" or sun drawing - it certainly was a long process: the exposure

time was about 8 hours.

Link | Nicéphore Niépce [wiki] | Niepce

World's First Daguerreotype

Although daguerreotype [wiki] was not the first photographic process to be

invented, it was the first commercially viable process (earlier techniques

required hours and hours of successful exposure and therefore weren't suitable

for taking people's photos).

This technique was developed by French chemist

Louis Daguerre [wiki], with collaboration with

Niépce (see above). The daguerreotype above,

titled "L'Atelier de l'artiste" was probably the world's

first daguerreotype, made in 1837.

In 1839, the French government acquired

Daguerre's French patent and announced his

invention "a gift free to the world" - but


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simultaneously, Daguerre

had acquired patents

abroad, where he

stringently controlled the

use of daguerreotype.

And just like with any technology, the first adopters

turned out to be erotic photography [wiki, nsfw -

obviously].

Posing for a daguerreotype wasn't trivial: because

the exposure time is about 15 minutes, the

subject's head had to be held still with a clamp!

World's First Human Portrait

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!

Robert Cornelius [wiki]

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!

The earliest American attempts in duplicating the photographic

experiments of the Frenchman Louis Daguerre occurred at NYU in

1839. John W. Draper, professor of chemistry, built his own

camera and made what may be the first human portrait taken in


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the United States, after a 65-second exposure. The sitter, his

sister Dorothy Catherine Draper, had her face powdered with

flour in an early attempt to accentuate contrasts.

Link

The Man Who Coined "Photography"

Also in 1839, the term "photography" was coined

by Sir John Frederick William Herschel [wiki], a

british mathematician and astronomer (side note:

his father, Sir Frederick William Herschel, also a

famous astronomer, discovered the planet

Uranus!)

Herschel also coined the terms "negative" and

"positive" in the context of photography, and also

of the vernacular "snapshot."

Stereoscopy

The principle of stereoscopy (or 3D photo) actually

preceded that of photography - it was described in

as early as the 1500s by Giambattista della Porta

[wiki].

In traditional stereoscopy [wiki], a pair of 2-D

images - each representing a slightly different

perspective of the same object, creates a

perception of depth and tricks the brain into

seeing a 3-D image.

The invention of daguerreotype sparked interest in

stereoscopy in the Victorian era.

World's First Photomontage

In 1858, Henry Peach Robinson [wiki] made the world's first photomontage by

combining multiple negatives to form a single image.

Robinson's first and most famous composite photo, called "Fading Away", was

a composition of five negatives. It depicted a girl dying of consumption (or

tuberculosis), and quite controversial as some objected to the morbid subject


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of the photo.

World's Oldest Surviving Aerial Photo

The first aerial photo was taken by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, better known as

Nadar [wiki], in 1858, using a tethered balloon over the Bievre Valley, France.

Unfortunately, Nadar's aerial photos were lost - so the oldest surviving aerial

photo, shown here, was that of Boston in 1860, taken by James Wallace Black

[wiki], also using a balloon.

Carte-de-visite

In the late-1850s in Europe, Andre Disdéri

popularized photos-as-calling-cards called carte-

de-visite.

Carte-de-visite became popular and Disdéri

became famous when French ruler Emperor

Napoleon III en route to Italy with his army,

stopped by his studio to pose for a photograph!

(Never mind that the story might be apocryphal, it

was still a good story!)

Because it is cheap to produce, carte-de-visite was

mass produced for the public and became a huge

fad in the Victorian era.

This carte-de-visite is of an interesting character

called Eugen Sandow, dubbed the first modern

bodybuilder who gained fame in late 1800s.


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Do All of a Galloping Horse's Hooves Leave the Ground?

In 1872, Eadweard Muybridge, a British-born photographer, was hired by

Leland Stanford (who later founded the university), to settle a question (some

people say a $25,000 bet) whether there was a point in a horse's full gallop

where all four hooves were off the ground.

Muybridge arranged 12 cameras alongside a race track and attached a string

to the camera switches across the track. When the horse ran through the

string, it triggered the shot. The series of photographs showed that indeed, all

four hooves leave the ground when the horse is in full gallop.

Muybridge went on to develop systems and techniques to photograph motion

of people and animal.

Eadweard Muybridge [wiki]

World's First Color Photograph


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The oldest known color photograph was taken by Louis Ducos du Hauron in

1872. The photo is of a view of Angouleme in Southern France.

The Birth of Photojournalism

Amongst many pioneering photographers of the

era is John Thomson [wiki], a Scottish Victorian

photographer and traveler, whose work

documenting the street people in London laid the

foundation of social documentary and

photojournalism.

This photo is called The Crawlers (cir. 1876 -

1877), a part of Thomson's work called Street Life

of London, which documents in earnest the

hardship of life of the transients and the poor in

that era.

Photographic Gun

In the 1880s, French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey wanted to learn how birds

fly, so he invented a photographic gun, which uses a rotating glass plate to

take 12 consecutive pictures per second!

The Pioneers: Étienne-Jules Marey | EJ Marey [wiki]

Vintage Concealed and Gun Cameras


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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, we saw a boom in the design and

production of cameras concealed in everyday objects. Many of these cameras

were sold for detective works, whereas some (like the matchbox camera) were

designed specifically for spying activities.

For a fantastic collection of vintage cameras, it's hard to beat George Eastman

House's online archive: Link

World's First Underwater Photo

The first underwater camera system was

developed by French scientist Louis Boutan in

1893.

The image on the left was the world's first

underwater photography - the model was so

excited that he held the identification plate upside

down!

Link | Another Link

Mammoth Camera

In 1900, George R. Lawrence built this mammoth 900 lb. camera, then the

world's largest, for $5,000 (enough to purchase a large house at that time!) It

took 15 men to move and operate the gigantic camera.

The photographer was commissioned by the Chicago & Alton Railway to make

the largest photograph (the plate was 8 x 4.5 ft in size!) of its train for the

company's pamphlet "The Largest Photograph in the World of the Handsomest

Train in the World."

Link

World's Most Expensive Photo


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You're looking at Edward Steichen's photo of a pond in Long Island, New York,

in 1904. Don't laugh: this rare print has set the world record for most

expensive photograph, sold for $2.9 million in February 2006!

BBC Article | Edward Steichen [wiki]

Thousands Posed for Mole and Thomas' War Photos

In 1918, photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas took a photograph


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of 30,000 military officers and men at Camp Custer, Michigan. A special

70-foot tower was built for this purpose.

Mole and Thomas actually specialized in taking these types of photographs -

they took a total of 10 photos where thousands of soldiers were posed to form

giant, living, symbols of the USA, including a portrait of Woodrow Wilson, the

Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, the Marine Corps emblem, and more.

Link

Watch the Birdie!

In the 1920s, a brass birdie was often used by

photographers to grab the attention of children

during a portrait session (hence the saying "Watch

the birdie"):

The birdie would typically be held by

an assistant or parent. A rubber hose

and squeeze bulb were connected to

the short length of open brass tubing.

The brass base separates into two

halves so the bottom of the base can

be filled with water. Squeezing the

rubber bulb causes the bird to make

a whistling and warbling sound.

Link

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The list above is by no means complete: we skipped many important

milestones in the days of early photography, including the contributions of

Fox Talbot [wiki], the development of other photographic processes

(collodion, gelatin emulsion, and so forth), the birth of cinematography,

and so on.

For those who are interested in learning more about the birth of

photography, there are many wonderful websites, such as Robert Leggat's

History of Photography, and Photography [wiki].

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Comments (97)

stupid sexy flanders • 29Aug06 8:52am • 0

While Mole and Thomas may have only taken 10 photos of soldiers in WW1, it was such a fad that I've seen dozens of these photos owned by the US


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Army.

Jim in LA • 29Aug06 9:55am • 0

great story!

dead_red_eyes • 29Aug06 11:19am • 0

Another great read !!!!

oi oi savaloy • 29Aug06 12:35pm • 0

that was mental that.

Mike 76 • 29Aug06 12:43pm • 0

I'm wondering why you didn't include Edgerton right off the bat. He was soo influential..if it wasn't for him we wouldn't even have high speed

photography...

Prashant 2 • 29Aug06 1:51pm • 0

Yery interesting article, specially because i am interested in photography.

dodgyd55 22 • 29Aug06 2:38pm • 0

takes me back to first time loading film in pitch black and then developing in the dark room, ah and the impossable task of colour photography, lol cant

even use red light

Bob 68 • 30Aug06 9:35pm • 1

"Photography was probably an inevitable invention - the surprise was that it took so long for it to develop"

"The development of photography was quite fast"

huh?

dbrown • 31Aug06 9:44am • 0

James Black made aerial photos of Providence some months before he did those in Boston; the emulsion did not survive well, but MOMA displayed a

print a couple of years ago.

Alan 52 • 01Sep06 3:09am • 0

Nice summary, but missing a very important step - the invention of teh negative, by William Henry Fox Talbot: http://www.r-cube.co.uk/fox-talbot

/history.html

Gert-Jan van den Bemd • 02Sep06 4:56am • 0

Great site! Very interesting! I will tell my fellow students to come here as well

Darby Sawchuk • 02Sep06 12:29pm • 0

Thanks for the interesting article. These early inventions certainly make me appreciate all my digital gear!

baldhead • 02Sep06 6:06pm • 0

Very interesting

yup 2 • 03Sep06 5:11pm • 0

werrd

Doug Stych • 03Sep06 11:21pm • 0

A lovely site, I am fascinated by early photography. I thought the earliest photo of a human was a silouette of an unidentified person standing in the

street, taken out of a early photographers studio window? I have been unable to find it again, read it in a book years ago. Learned all sorts of things I

never knew on this page, great work.

_Doug

Carpus 1 • 15Sep06 6:39pm • 0

Very nice! Thanks for the good read.

andrea 15 • 06Oct06 5:02pm • 0

Wonderful images. I'm greatful what these inventors made possible for us now.

The Kid Loose In Todos Santos • 10Oct06 2:11pm • 0

I loved it... my dad emailed me the link, it's very cool. I only wish I could write reports for school this well... did you do a lot of research? It's very

impressive!


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raquel 3 • 25Oct06 9:43am • 0

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bob walker • 16Nov06 2:17am • 0

What a great collection of pictures and stories. We do wedding photography in digital format. This site makes me appreciate just "how far we have

come" in photography. Thanks for the site and info. I love it.

Holly 20 • 26Nov06 12:49pm • 0

Really intresting information. Very usefull to it helped me a lot with homework! Thanks!

Paul Burns • 07Dec06 8:05pm • 0

I would like permission to post possible 2-3 of the photographs on your website and add some commentary and credit of course.

Regards,

Paul Burns

Frank Serrao • 10Jan07 8:54am • 0

Fantastic research and presentation of information/pictures relative to Photo History.

Thank YOU.

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Sami 2 • 31Jan07 10:34am • 0

This article was very helpful for getting information for a school project. Thank you!

Stock Photo Rx • 25Feb07 2:24pm • 0

How can we improve copyright infringement for photos on the Internet

Richard A • 18Mar07 11:07am • 0

Can anyone give me any information on an early photographer named M.D. Bourne of New York?

michael 44 • 22May07 10:24am • 0

I am impressed with the pic of the 1st woman (eyes open-albeit) I never saw it before and also the earliest extant picture in the air.........

AJW 3 • 09Jun07 11:45pm • 0

The FIRST colour photograph was made under the instruction of Scottish polymath James Clerk Maxwell by photographer Thomas Sutton, in 1861. It's a

picture of a tartan ribbon.

The picture you credited with being first is undoubtedly prettier, but 11 years too late to claim primacy.

Another early colour photographer of note, though decades later, was Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii. The Library of Congress has an exquisite collection of his

colour pictures of Czarist Russia at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

Rick 55 • 26Jun07 5:01pm • 0

I'm impressed with this information 'bout the history of photography.

Robert 122 • 01Aug07 4:45pm • 0

Informative,interesting article.

onur • 10Sep07 7:17am • 0

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Rebekah Armstrong • 19Nov07 11:50am • 0

The article was a fascinating read! I enjoyed seeing the photographs that became the milestones in the history of photography.

Rebekah Armstrong • 19Nov07 11:52am • 0

The article was a fascinating read! I enjoyed seeing some of the photographs that became milestones in the history of photography.

Anders 1 • 28Nov07 8:43am • 0

On a Swedish historical forum called forum.skalman.nu there has been a dicussion about who's the earliest born person that's been photographed.

One person we are sure about is the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hahnemann).


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Another person we have found is Caroline Herschel (1750-1848). The pictures don't look like photos though, but are they based on photos? (Second

picture on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel and some other picture, where she's slightly younger, which I don't find now.) She was by the way

an aunt of Sir John Frederick William Herschel who's mentioned in the article above.

A third person is John Leland (1754-1841), but it's unclear to us whether this is a photo or not (www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/leland.html).

Does anyone know more about this? Are there photographed persons that are born much earlier than these?

dbrown 1 • 28Nov07 5:16pm • 0

James Black photographed Providence, RI, from the air before he tried Boston. The plates didn't come out well, but at least one survived; MOMA had a

print in their "Modern Starts" show a few years ago.

David Malinowski • 30Nov07 2:05pm • 0

Very nice collection of photos and historic data.

I did not see any mention of George Eastman (other than the matchbox camera) in your article. Eastman may not have been the "first" from an

inventor's list but certainly used his philantropic vision to bring photography to the people. Some of his processes are still today, the benchmark even in

the digital world. The Geoge Eastman House is a must see if one is ever in the Rochester, NY area.

Rob 139 • 14Dec07 11:25am • 0

Great article on the histoy of photography. Wanted to let you know about the site http://www.phillyhistory.org The city of philadelphia is putting their

whole archive online for people to see. The city of philadelphia had some great photographers who documented the city in an amazing way. Some of the

images that we are publishing in the fine art collection would remain you of Atget. Check them out. Your site celebrates the work of so many great

photographes.

Jim Mackay • 29Dec07 11:51am • 0

Has anyone heard of Hans(?) Earl or Carl who had photographs published by the Berlin Photographic Company in 1903? Pet dogs seem to be his theme.

Thanks

Mark Lund • 14Jan08 10:07pm • 0

One overlooked part of this history of Photography is the Panoramic and Lenticular imaging done.

Cirkut, Panoram, Orbit, Alt-Vista for Panoramic. Vari-Vue amongst others for the Lenticular side of Popular/novelty imaging.

Also processes to make such early images.

Daguerreotype, Wet Collodion, Bromoil, Platnium, Gum Bichromate and Photogravure; color process: Autochrome ( Lumere Brothers), Kodachrome,

Heliochrome.

There is some for ya!

Mark 72 • 14Feb08 7:04pm • 0

Anyone else notice the horse and rider have a shadow? It says it was taken on a race track, I don't think the race track would have such a wall for the

shadow to cast on.

Xof • 13Mar08 11:26pm • 0

Great article! I think the world's most expensive photograph is from Richard Prince for $3,401,000 in 2007

http://digitalfreak.net/2008/01/18/richard-prince-print-sets-auction-record-for-photography-take-2/

Chuck 48 • 14Mar08 1:20am • 0

Awesome article. It was funny that this was on digg today. I was just reading about the history of photography in Uncle John's Bathroom reader. Great

books.

Josiah 3 • 14Mar08 1:24am • 0

Holy crap this is an awesome post. One second I'm excited about snapping picture with my iPhone, the next I'm kicked in the crotch by history.

Interwebnet ftw.

Eswar • 14Mar08 2:10am • 0

well done ... i never knew more than 99% of what's in here ...

Eric 11 • 14Mar08 8:54am • 0

Great site. You might want to mention some early war photos, like those of the US civil war.


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Chris Larson • 14Mar08 9:57am • 0

posted your list on listdid.com -- thanks, Chris

Techie • 14Mar08 11:22am • 0

Really good article. I learned more than I will ever need to know. Dugg it.

Pee-Wee • 14Mar08 12:13pm • 0

The info on the horse and rider is incorrect, as Mark said above. They were taken on a treadmill, not on a racetrack. In fact, if you watch the clip, you

can even see the treadmill come into view. There are enough records of this on the internet, in books, in documentaries, etc, etc. Carl, in denying this

above, is wrong.

Paulville • 14Mar08 4:23pm • 0

I'm afraid Carl is right. Can you just imagine a horse at full gallop on a treadmill? It's hard enough for a human to do it!

Tim 48 • 14Mar08 4:29pm • 0

The Wikipedia article you reference for Robert Cornelius only says he was the son of a Dutch immigrant which would imply he was born in Philadelphia.

Do you have another source that says this was not the case? If Cornelius was the Philadelphia-born son of an immigrant why not just call him a

Philadelphia photographer?

ester abuel • 14Mar08 10:11pm • 0

amazing

José L. Díaz • 26Mar08 10:07pm • 0

Great job!! the photography is science and for the same reason an art, the techniques or the technology itself are an important part of the modern

industrial history and fine art...you must to o an second part about the 35mm history with fisrst Oskar Barnak camera or the SLR revolution, the

german photo industry rise and decline, the japanesse assault to the market, the most legendary cameras and lenses as Leitz, Carl Zeiss, Pentacon,

Nikon, Canon, Exacta, Praktica...too much on a short space of time...

unkown 1 • 30Mar08 4:35am • 0

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS.

ALL THIS IS VERY USEFULL !!

Been looking for this infomation on 100's of different websites and most of it is right here.

CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH !!!

Photography Classes • 28May08 4:06pm • 0

Very cool. Currently take a photo course at Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Arts. Just shared your post with my entire class. Thanks!

el tuercas • 30May08 9:17pm • 0

hi there love the post... but on the first under water photography the guy holds the plate upside down is he at your left or at our right thats what i didnt

understand compleatly apart from that every thing great greets from the other side of the mirror... of an SRL

click click!!!!

Digitaltampa • 25Sep08 5:41am • 0

This is perfect for an article that I was writing for my class. Thank you!

Jonathan B • 08Oct08 8:05pm • 0

Mole & Thomas produced more than just 10 "living Photograh" images. I'm not sure of the exact amount, but I'd say they probably produced twice that

amount.

Kieran 6 • 23Oct08 2:51pm • 0

Hi,

Maxwell took the first color photograph in 1861. You may want to expand your explanation of du Hauron.

Rickyboy • 31Dec08 1:32am • 0

hello fellow photos

Mary 31 • 06Jan09 2:46pm • 0

Does anyone have access information about Berlin Photographic Company...in particular a process for "photo-etching"?

shoaib • 17Jan09 10:39pm • 0


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World’s Oldest Surviving Aerial Photo

Nice Photograph!

I could not pin point the location via Google Earth, If someone especially from Boston, can save this particular location via google earth and paste here,

it would be very interesting to observe the differences that One-and-a-Half Century left upon the roads & streets of that particular area of Boston.

Shoaib

London

Shoshana Balatow • 19Jan09 4:40pm • 0

What a fascinating look back on this wonderful development ( pun intended.)

There is a wonderful camera obscura located in a camera-shaped building behind the Cliff House in San Francisco- last time I was there the admission

was only $1. A periscope outside sweeps in a 360 degree view which shows the Pacific Ocean, the beach, the buildings and the ever changing sky. They

play ethereal music, and even have a collection of holographic photography inside. Check it out on your next visit to THE City!

hamad • 15Feb09 8:13pm • 0

I admire and apreciate your work

thanks alot and I hope that you provide

us with other elements of photography

such as :

the first camera (( IMAGE ))

the first colored photo

and finally the first stand camera

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Seventh Grader 1 • 24Feb09 6:07pm • 0

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[email protected] • 25Feb09 2:32am • 0

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This is like a basket of goodies for someone who is starving! So much, so complete, grand photos ( but of course) and my 21st book in process will now

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I loved this! I wish there were more pictures featured. Very interesting. You have piqued my interest...thanks!

Dr. Alan Ardouin • 12May09 5:27pm • 0

It may be that the actual plates of Nadar's aerial photography were lost but two were published in La Nature (Paris)in 1886.

These can be seen on http://cnum.cnam.fr/ILL/4KY28.27.html

They are illustrations Nos 120& 121, No.122 is a barometric record of the flight on 2nd July 1886

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Lynne Pearson • 01Aug09 4:18am • 0

I just decided to look up Arthur S Mole on ask jeeves this morning after seeing in our newspaper yesterday some of his great photo's taken way back in

the 1800's and I came about this site.......wow I only wanted to spend a couple of minutes....Ha! but I'v now been on here a little !!!! te he! bit

longer.....I am leaving this site with a lot more knowledge than when I came on so with regards to whoever put this together I congratulate you and

hope you continue to make people like me "Have a happier Day " Cheers Lynne.

sammy from digphoto class • 14Sep09 9:02am • 0

THOUGHT THIS PAGE TAUGHT ME A LOT OF REALLY COOL STUFF ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY.....I'M A BUDDING PHOTO STUDENT SO THANKS FOR THE

INFO!!!!

Ashvanth.T • 18Sep09 8:35am • 0

Hi,

these are very nice informations these will help to know more about photography

thanks

elizabeth lynn • 17Nov09 2:50pm • 0

what an amazing history. thank you so much for sharing

Alana Curth • 01Dec09 10:24pm • 0

Great Info! Totally helped me on an essay! thanx!

fatih 1 • 13Dec09 6:32am • 0

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Belinda 5 • 08Jan10 6:52am • 0

It makes sense to me that the worlds most expensive photo would feature a sunrise. Photography is sooo amazing! :)

Baddboy Mafia • 08Jan10 5:42pm • 0

You know, its kinda ironic how I've noticed most people's names in the comment area have listed similar names to one another... "Are you all related,

or did you all eat the same soup last night" ? LOL . No purpose for me to leave any comments on this blog. I do what I do, and I do similarly what

History has shown , here in this Blog. I know the rest of the commentators here had fun, now lets leave it up to the pros. Baddboyfilms, Its about time !

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P-C • 12Apr10 11:19am • 0

Hello,

Thanks for a great post about the history of early photography. I've written a piece on photography in daily life in history, with the example of the


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Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre, hhttp://www.sceneryphotostory.com/2010/photos-of-daily-life-before-and-what-to-come/

Thanks again!

Paul

machfudi • 02May10 6:45pm • 0

ass.wr.wb saya hanya manusia kerdil bodoh dibandingkan dengan kalian yang terucap dari mulut saya hanya bersyukur karena saya masih diberi sehat

adalah harta yang tak ternilai dibandingkan apapun dan perkembangan photograph tanpa ada yang memulai mungkin tidak ada dunia camera kita

bersyukur kalian hanya tinggal mengembangkan saja saya akui jaman sekarang memang orangnya pintar-pintar dibanding tempo dulu peralatannya

sangat terbatas tapi orangnya pemikir semua demi masa depan tanpa dia mungkin tidak ada rumus yang tercipta atas lensa kita wajib bersyukur apa

yang dilakukan orang dahulu demi kita juga sekian. wassallam

machfudi • 12May10 6:57am • 0

ass.wr.wb semoga saja kalian sehat jasmani dan rohani dan tiada problem yang menghardik kalian apapun yang kamu lakukan senantiasa bermanfaat

bagi orang lain terutama keluarga kalian kalau melihat foto orang terdahulu memang sangat antusias untuk melakukan riset kita hanya menuainya

kamu seharusnya bersyukur karena ada yang memulai atas ilmu lensa atau optik maka dari itu kamu diberi akal fikiran pergunakan dengan hal yang

positif bermanfaat bagi orang lain otomatis pahala yang menunggumu sekian akhirul kallam wassalla...mu..alaik..

bobby rawls • 30Aug10 5:10pm • 0

I have just found a picture that is supposed to be of my great-great-great grandparents Archibald & Hannah Lowe Whitt. Since Archibald Whitt died

about December 1828 in Virginia I was a bit sceptical it was of them especially since it was so clear.

My question when were the 1st CLEAR pictures developed in Virginia?

Qelqoth • 01Oct10 10:17am • 0

James Clerk Maxwell took the first color photo, your page is flawed.

Peter kuran • 17Jan11 1:06pm • 0

Great historical perspective. One other thing you see forming is how photography morphs into different uses:

vanity, pushing the portrait business.

technical photography, such as Muybridge's horse galloping.

but, the "World's first Daguerreotype" appears to be the first in the group to illicit an emotional response, which is what I would call the most important

use of photography..

Kelly 69 • 04Feb11 1:11pm • 0

this site had alot of info that contradicted the info in a book i got form the library. I am more inclined to believe the book and think this site is none to

amazing.

~Kelly :-(

Kelly 69 • 04Feb11 1:13pm • 0

please comment to the comment above this

N. 1 • 06Feb11 5:25pm • 0

Thanks!

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