The most important shots in the history of photography (33 photos)

These pictures do not seem very interesting, and sometimes not at all. impressive, especially against the background of color masterpieces of modern photographers. But once each of them marked a new era in photography.





Oldest photographed person



Hanna Stilley Gorby, born in 1746, is a person born before anyone ever photographed. She was born for ten years before Mozart and 23 years before Napoleon Bonaparte, both from who did not live to see the invention of photography. And here is Gorby in mature aged 94, posed for a portrait made in 1840.

First selfie (1839)



The very first portrait photograph was a selfie! In 1839 Robert Cornelius, a photographer from Philadelphia, had the patience and determination to sit still for 15 minutes - the time it takes to daguerreotype. The result was the first clear photograph of a person, the first portrait and first selfie at the same time.

First photograph (1826)



The first photograph in history was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. On The photograph captures the picturesque view from his window in Son-et-Loire, Burgundy, France. This historic image took eight hours to complete.

First photograph from a negative (1835)



In 1835, Henry Fox Talbot improved upon Niépce's concept by creating more practical method. He was the first to take a photo with negative, which allowed him to make several copies instead of one hazy image on metal.

First photograph of people (1838)



Louis Daguerre made history by taking the first photograph in which person is depicted. The photo shows a street in Paris, but if you take a closer look at the lower left corner, you will see two people - one cleans someone else's shoes. As they stood still for long exposure time, they could be captured while how the rest of the people on the street weren't filmed.

The first portrait of the president (1843)



John Quincy Adams was the first US president to be photographed by Philip Haas in Washington, DC.

First portrait of a woman (1839 or 1840)



John Draper made history by taking the first ever portrait that was not a selfie. The person pictured here is his sister Dorothy, and this the first portrait of a woman in the history of photography.

First photo taken with a smartphone (1997)



In Santa Cruz, California, technology pioneer Philip Kahn entered the history by being the first to take a photo with your mobile phone. He himself united digital camera with a phone to create a primitive phone with photography opportunity. Then he used it to send close real-time photos of your little daughter.

First aerial photograph (1860)



In 1860, long before drones, the first aerial photograph. It shows the city of Boston from a bird's eye view - that is, about 800 meters. Photographer James Wallace Black called it "Boston as the eagle and the wild goose see it."

First underwater portrait (1899)



In 1899, Louis Boutan, a French biologist and photographer, made history, making the first underwater portrait. His model, Emil Rakovica, was supposed to 30 minutes to pose in the water at Banyuls-sur-Mer in France.

First photo of people



David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson founded the first in Scotland photography studio and became famous for photographing everyday life. This photograph, taken in Edinburgh, shows for the first time a group of people enjoying a drink together.

First color landscape shot (1877)

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Louis Ducos du Hauron successfully captured in color the city of Agen, France.

First news shot (1848)



This is the first photograph ever used for illustration. news. No one knows who made it, but it depicts a street Saint-Maur-Popencourt in Paris shortly after the battle between government troops and demonstrators, resulting in thousands of deaths.

The first photo of the Sun (1845)



On April 2, 1845, French scientists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault made the first ever depiction of the Sun using the daguerreotype process. It took only 1/60th of a second to capture the luminary. If you look closely, you can see a few sunspots.

First photo of a black hole (2019)



In April 2019, the world saw the first photograph of a black hole. it monumental achievement was the result of the collective efforts of more than 200 astronomers from all over the world who have worked tirelessly for many years. They used many powerful telescopes and supercomputers around the world to process petabytes of data and create an impressive image.

First full color photo (1861)



Physicist and mathematician James Clerk took the first color photograph. Maxwell. The photograph showing the tricolor ribbon was presented by Maxwell during a lecture in 1861 and is considered the first durable color photography.

First photo of an object in motion (1878)



Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneer in the art of motion capture on photographs using a series of cameras that fire one after the other. These time-lapse photographs taken in Palo Alto, California, played important role in the development of film technology.

First shot of a tornado (1884)



Considered the oldest photo of a tornado, the image was taken 45 kilometers southwest of Howard, South Dakota.

First photograph from space (1946)



On October 24, 1946, the V-2 No. 13 rocket made history by making the first photograph from space. The picture shows our planet in black and white. color from a height of 110 rbkjvtnhjd. The operators used a 35mm a movie camera that took a frame every 1.5 seconds until the rocket rose higher and higher.

First photo from inside the solar corona (2018)



In November 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe traveled through the Sun's atmosphere and took an incredible picture right in the corona. The photo was taken from a distance of 35 million kilometers from the center Sun and showed that solar material is ejected by a star.

First picture of the Earth from the Moon (1966)



August 23, 1966 the space camera on the lunar orbiter took a picture of our planet Earth as it moved near the moon. The image was then sent back to Earth and received at Robledo de Cerville in Spain.

First photo of lightning (1882)



This photo was taken by William Jennings in 1882. He used his photos to prove lightning is a lot harder than people thought initially.

First detailed photo of the Moon (1840)



Draper took the first clear picture of the moon during his stay in New York.

First shot of a plane crash (1908)



This 1908 photo shows the death of pilot Thomas Selfridge. Orville Wright was also on the plane, but survived the plane crash. The aircraft was a new prototype made for the Air Force Association. experiments, which was part of the US Army.

First digital photo of the president (2009)



In 2009, for the first time, a digital camera was used to take a picture of the President of the United States. The man behind the camera was official White House photographer Pete Souza, who captured the portrait Barack Obama. With a Canon 5D Mark II and no flash, Souza brought to White House achievements in photography.

First digital photography (1957)



The first digital photograph was taken in 1957, long before how Kodak engineers created the first digital camera. Image is a digital version of a photograph originally taken on film, and it depicts the son of Russell Kirsch - the author of the photo.

First photograph of a living animal (1842)



This black and white photo shows a beast of burden resting next to a wagon at the cattle market in Rome. The picture was taken in French photographer Joseph-Philiber Giraud de Prangy during his journey through Mediterranean sometime between April and July 1842.

First photo from Mars (1976)



The Viking 1 spacecraft took the first photograph of Mars shortly after landing on the red planet. The picture was taken on July 20, 1976 and was part of a NASA mission to get a closer look at the Martian surface and obtain detailed information about the planet.

First Photoshopped Shot (1987)



John Knoll of Industrial Light & Magic, owned Lucasfilm, made history by being the first to edit a photograph in Photoshop. He digitized a beautiful photo of his wife Jennifer, made in the tropical paradise of Bora Bora and used it as demonstrating the capabilities of the editing program that we all we know.

First color underwater photo (1926)



In 1926, Charles Martin, National Geographic photographer and botanist William Longley went to the Florida Keys to make the first ever color underwater photography. The picture showed a long-feathered wrasse. The photo was made possible by protecting the camera in a special waterproof case and using a magnesium-powered flash.

First photo of a solar eclipse (1851)



On a sunny day in 1851, Johann Julius Berkowski made the first photograph of a solar eclipse. He used the daguerreotype process with 84-second exposure at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia.

First photo of rocket launch from Cape Canaeral (1950)



In July 1950, NASA photographers took the first ever picture of a launch rockets from Cape Canaveral. The photo also shows other photographers, who take their own pictures of the exciting event.