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The first permanent photograph was produced by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1825, the process improved over time with contributions from a number of early pioneers.
In late 1838 or early 1839 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre took what is believed to be the first photograph of a person the actual photo is of a Paris street scene, but because of the long exposure time needed to produce the photo the traffic did not show, but an unidentified man having his boots shined did stay still long enough to become the first person to be photographed.
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Right now you are probably thinking “I can’t see him”. He’s the blob in the bottom left hand corner, click on the thumbnail to enlarge the photograph still a blob, but you should be able to see him.
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First Photograph of a Person |
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First Colour Image |
Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell took the first colour photograph in 1861, this colour image of a ribbon was made by superimposing three separate images that had been taken using different filters red, green and blue into a single image. But the world had to wait untill 1907 before the Lumiére brothers of France introduce the first practical colour photography process to the market.
In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer, took photographs proving that a race horse had all four hoofs off the ground at the same time when racing.
This was done by placing a number of cameras along side a race track.
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The problem of getting each camera to operate in sequence and at the right time was solved by attaching each camera to a wire which was stretched out across the track, a picture was taken each time the race horse broke a wire.
Today using digital photography a good picture is often about the editing, early photographers needed to think about every photo they took, taking a photo took time, equipment was heavy and cumbersome and required time to setup. In the early day’s photographers needed to develop the negative quickly after exposure and the adjustments they could make to the image were very limited.
Despite these limitations or maybe because of them they took some wonderful images.
The information on this page has been taken from many different sources, and I suppose it’s inevitable that there are some small discrepancies between them especially with dates.
If you are interested in the history of photography there are some good articles on Wikipedia.
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