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First Permanent Image x
826: First Permanent Image
French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce uses a camera obscura to burn a permanent image of the countryside at his 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 photo of a person x
n early 1839, French painter Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre photographs a Paris street scene from his apartment window using a camera obscura But an unidentified man who stops for a shoeshine remains still long enough to unwittingly become the first person ever photographed. -
The first color photograph x
james Clerk Maxwell creates this rudimentary color image by superimposing onto a single screen three black-and-white images each passed through three filters—red, green, and blue. -
First tonado photo
An unknown photographer inspired legions of tornado-chasers when he captured the earliest known photograph of a tornado. The black-and-white image was taken on August 28, 1884, about 22 miles (45 kilometers) southwest of Howard, South Dakota. -
first photo of the north pole x
The July 1906 issue of National Geographic featured its first ever wildlife photographs. Editor Gil Grosvenor printed 74 photos snapped by U.S. Representative and early conservationist George Shiras, beginning a long tradition of featuring wildlife photos in the magazine. -
First underwater picture taken x
ichthyologist William Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin .The photos, which show reef scenes with fish, are published in the January 1927 National Geographic. -
First Photo of Earth From the Moon x
This photo reveals the first view of Earth from the moon, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23, 1966. Shot from a distance of about 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers), this image shows half of Earth, from Istanbul to Cape Town and areas east, shrouded in night. -
First Full-View Photo of Earth x
This famous "Blue Marble" shot represents the first photograph in which Earth is in full view. The picture was taken on December 7, 1972, as the Apollo 17 crew left Earth’s orbit for the moon. With the sun at their backs, the crew had a perfectly lit view of the blue planet. -
first wildlife picture taken
The July 1906 issue of National Geographic featured its first ever wildlife photographs. Editor Gil Grosvenor printed 74 photos snapped by U.S. Representative and early conservationist George Shiras, beginning a long tradition of featuring wildlife photos in the magazine.
