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Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man[ b ] 18 October 1840. Hippolyte Bayard. Paris, France [ 6 ] Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process. [ 7 ][ 8 ] [ s 1 ] The Haystack. 1844 [ c ] William Henry Fox Talbot.
Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 [Note 1] – February 19, 1856) was an American farmer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and centenarian.He is often credited as being the earliest-born person to have been photographed alive, although several other contenders are known, most notably a shoemaker named John Adams and Caesar, an African.
The photo was found to be taken at his home from a second-story south-facing bedroom window. [1] View from the Window at Le Gras[2] (French: Point de vue du Gras) is a heliographic image and the oldest surviving camera photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce sometime between 1822 and 1827 [a] in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes ...
The Boulevard du Temple photograph of 1838 (or possibly 1837 [1]) is an image of a Parisian streetscape and one of the earliest surviving daguerreotype plates produced by Louis Daguerre. [2] Although the image seems to be of a deserted street, it is widely considered to be the first photograph to include an image of a human. [3][4]
29 year old Pfc. Ivan Babcock of the US Army’s 165th Signal Photo Company poses with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave during WW2. Siegan, Germany. 3 April 1945. The cave was used by ...
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]
Robert Cornelius (/ k ɔːr ˈ n iː l i ə s /; March 1, 1809 [1] – August 10, 1893) was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography.His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a very important achievement for self-portraiture.
While most historical cultures didn't produce actual portraits, many did produce other kinds of depictions of individual persons, such as depictions of rulers on ancient coins, miniatures in medieval bookpainting etc. In many cases, these are so heavily stylized that they can't serve to provide a realistic sense of what the person actually ...