The history of photgraphy has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of the principle of the camera obscura and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. As far as is known, nobody thought of bringing these two phenomena together to capture camera images in permanent form until around 1800, when Thomas Wedgwood made the first reliably documented although unsuccessful attempt. In the mid-1820s, Nicéphore Niépce succeeded, but several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. Niépce’s associate Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced photographic process, which required only minutes of exposure in the camera and produced clear, finely detailed results. It was commercially introduced in 1839, a date generally accepted as the birth year of practical photography.
There we go with the first photography in all the times:
View from the Window at Le Gras (Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France)
And… if you think that we are the ‘selfie generation’ then change your mind! Robert Cornelius should sing #SELFIE … he made the first self-portrait in history. And… not, it’s not made with an iPhone or any other smartphone!
There he is:
Robert Cornelius, head-and-shoulders [self-]portrait, facing front, with arms crossed, approximate quarter plate daguerreotype, 1839 [Oct. or Nov.]
And if this post looks too ‘grizzle’ then make your eyes happy with the first color photo and I guess we should thank to James Clerk Maxwell because without him I guess now we’ve had a lot of grey memories… Disneyland in a photo like that would easily be confused with a creapy castle. You don’t believe me? -Try this.
Let see:
Tartan Ribbon, photograph taken by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861. Considered the first colour photograph. Maxwell had the photographer Thomas Sutton photograph a tartan ribbon three times, each time with a different colour filter over the lens. The three images were developed and then projected onto a screen with three different projectors, each equipped with the same colour filter used to take its image. When brought into focus, the three images formed a full colour image. The three photographic plates now reside in a small museum at 14 India Street, Edinburgh, the house where Maxwell was born.
So…now we know a few things more han before reading this, right?
Source of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography
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