history of photography

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  • first permenet picture

    first permenet picture
    826: First Permanent Image
    French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce uses a camera obscura to burn a permanent image of the countryside at his Le Gras, France, estate onto a chemical-coated pewter plate. He names his technique "heliography," meaning "sun drawing." The black-and-white exposure takes eight hours and fades significantly, but an image is still visible on the plate today.

  • first altiude picture

    first altiude picture
    1826: First Permanent Image
    French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce uses a camera obscura to burn a permanent image of the countryside at his Le Gras, France, estate onto a chemical-coated pewter plate. He names his technique "heliography," meaning "sun drawing." The black-and-white exposure takes eight hours and fades significantly, but an image is still visible on the plate today.

  • first picture of a person

    first picture of a person
    839: First Photo of a Person
    In early 1839, French painter and chemist Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre photographs a Paris street scene from his apartment window using a camera obscura and his newly invented daguerreotype process. The long exposure time (several minutes) means moving objects like pedestrians and carriages don't appear in the photo. But an unidentified man who stops for a shoeshine remains still long enough to unwittingly become the first person ever photographed.

  • first eral pictur

    first eral pictur
    1858: First Bird's-Eye View
    Felix Tournachon, better known by the nom de plume Nadar, combines his interests— aeronautics, journalism, and photography— and becomes the first to capture an aerial photograph in a tethered balloon over Paris in 1858.

  • first colur photo

    first colur photo
    1861: First Color Photo
    The enormously influential Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell creates a rudimentary color image by superimposing onto a single screen three black-and-white images each passed through three filters—red, green, and blue. His photo of a multicolored ribbon is the first to prove the efficacy of the three-color method, until then just a theory, and sets the stage for further color innovation, particularly by the Lumißre brothers in France.

  • first action picture

    first action picture
    1878: First Action Photos
    English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, using new emulsions that allow nearly instantaneous photography, begins taking photograph sequences that capture animals and humans in motion. His 1878 photo series of a galloping horse, created with 12 cameras each outfitted with a trip wire, helps settle a disagreement over whether at any time in a horse's gait all four hooves leave the ground. (They do.) It also causes a popular stir about the potential of cameras to study mov

  • first tornado image

    first tornado image
    1884: First Tornado Photo
    Taken by an unknown photographer, this image is thought to be the oldest existing photo of a tornado. According to the U.S. National Weather Service, it was taken on August 28, 1884, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) southwest of Howard, South Dakota.

  • first picture publisht in the natrall geograffic magazine

    first picture publisht in the natrall geograffic magazine
    1889: First Photo Published in National Geographic
    The first photograph to appear in National Geographic is a relief map of North America. It appears in the magazine's third issue (Volume 1, Number 3, 1889). The first photograph of a natural scene—generally considered the first real photograph in the magazine—is of Herald Island, in the Arctic Ocean, taken from a ship and appearing in the March 1890 issue.
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  • first high speed pictuer

    first high speed pictuer
    1940s: First High-Speed Photography Images
    Dr. Harold "Doc" Edgerton, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works with National Geographic to perfect high-speed stroboscopic photography, freezing on film the rapid movements of nature that elude the eye. National Geographic publishes several of the images, including bullets frozen in mid-flight and stilled hummingbird wings. Nicknamed "Papa Flash," Edgerton's techniques are later used to illuminate th

  • first picture used as a front cover

    first picture used as a front cover
    1943: First Photo on National Geographic Cover
    For its July 1943 issue, National Geographic spruces up its normally staid yellow-and-white cover with a photo of a billowing American flag. The decision was made after a wartime plea by the U.S. Treasury Department for all major magazines to print a flag on their June or July covers, hoping to encourage the purchase of war bonds. The words "Buy U.S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps" also appear at the top of the magazine.