First photos

A very entertaining collection of the first in the history of photos - from the first fixed image to color photography, from X-ray images to digital.

In 1822, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niepce created the world's first recorded image.
It is believed that the image was covered in the house Niepce table, but the record has not survived to the present day.
The oldest of the surviving images discoverer photos is provided above the work titled "View from the window at Le Gras". In the picture you can see farmhouses and the sky.
The image was obtained using a pinhole camera and a tin plate covered with a thin layer of asphalt, the whole process takes about 8 hours.





French inventor and partner Louis Daguerre Niepce in 1838, took a picture of the Parisian street, the work called «Boulevard du Temple».
Street seems deserted, as a picture made on the 10 minute exposure, people moved down the street too fast and could not stay in the picture.
But one of the passers-by stopped to polish all the shoes.
He remained motionless long enough to get on the photographic plate.
This is the first ever photo of a person.



In 1839, the American pioneer of photography Robert Hinnieser Cornelius made a self-portrait.
This image is the first portrait and self-portrait in history.



In 1858, Henry Peach Robinson combined the five negatives into one image by performing the first in the history of photomontage.
The picture is called «Fading Away», it depicts the girl's death from tuberculosis. At the time, the work has caused much controversy.



The first stable color photograph made the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1861.
Maxwell used the method of three-color photography.
To get a picture of this method used three cameras installed in them with color filters.
These images allow the projection to recreate, and later printing, color image.



The first person shot, made with the help of X-rays.
This brush wife of Wilhelm Roentgen, the picture is dated 1895.



American engineer and inventor Russell A. Kirsch in 1957, worked with a team of scientists on the invention of the scanner.
After creating a prototype, Kirsch, wanting to test the device scanned a photograph of his son, Walden.
This picture is the first digital image in the world.



This picture from CERN became the first images uploaded to the Internet, and the first picture that appeared in the browser window.
In the yard it was in 1992.
Everything is just beginning ...

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