Look at the very first photographs in the world. The world's first photographs (31 photos)

“View from the window on Le Grace” - the photograph was already very real.

The original image on the plate looks very specific:

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Niépce photographed the view from the window of his own house, and the exposure lasted as long as eight hours! The roofs of nearby buildings and a piece of the yard are what can be seen in this photograph.

It was a photograph of a table set for a picnic - 1829.

Niépce's method was not suitable for photographic portraits.

But French artist he succeeded in this - his method conveyed halftones well, and a shorter exposure allowed him to take pictures of living people. Louis Daguerre collaborated with Niepce, but it took him several more years after Niepce's death to bring the invention to fruition.

The first Daguerreotype was made in 1837 and represented

photo of Daguerre's art workshop

Daguerre. Boulevard du Temple 1838

(The world's first photograph with a person).

Holyrood Church, Edinburgh, 1834

1839 - the first photographic portraits of people, women and men, appeared.

On the left is the American Dorothy Catherine Draper, whose photograph, taken by the learned brother, became the first photographic portrait within the United States and the first photographic portrait of a woman with open eyes

The exposure lasted 65 seconds and Dorothy's face had to be covered with a thick layer of white powder.

And on the right is the Dutch chemist Robert Cornelius, who managed to photograph himself.

His photograph taken in October 1839 is the very first photographic portrait

in history in general. Both of these experimental photographic portraits, in my opinion, look expressive and relaxed, in contrast to later daguerreotypes, in which people often looked like idols due to excessive tension.

From surviving daguerreotypes

The first erotic photograph taken by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in 1839.

On the daguerreotype of 1839 - Port of Ripetta in Italy. Quite a detailed image, however, in some places the shadow ate everything into solid black.

And in this photo of Paris you can see the famous Louvre from the Seine River. Still the same year 1839. It's funny - many of the works of art exhibited in the Louvre and now considered ancient works of art had not yet been created at the time of photography.

Already in the first year of its existence, daguerreotype preserved many imprints of the past. The spread of the new technology was very intensive, surprisingly intense for such an unusual novelty at that time. As early as 1839, people were already photographing things like museum collections, like this collection of shells.

The next year came, 1840. Man increasingly became a subject for photographs. This is the first full-length photograph of a person (full-length, not a small blurry silhouette). On it we can see with our own eyes an attribute of the life of the elite of the past, which was already an ancient tradition at that time - a personal carriage ready for the trip and a smart servant inviting passengers to take their seats. True, he is not inviting us - we are a little late. About 170 years old.

But in this photo from the same year - the family of the great Mozart. Although this has not been proven, there is a 90% probability that the elderly woman in the front row is Constance Mozart, the musician’s wife. Both this and the previous photographs allow us to get at least a little in touch with those times that already in 1840 were considered the deep past.

The thought immediately arises that daguerreotypes can bring to us some traces of an even older era - the 18th century. Who was the oldest person captured in the oldest photographs? Can we see the faces of people who lived most of their lives in the 18th century? Some people live up to 100 years and even more.

Daniel Waldo, born September 10, 1762, was related to US President John Adams. This man fought during the American Revolution, and in the photograph we can see him at the age of 101.

Huche Brady, renowned American general, born July 29, 1768, had the honor of fighting in the War of 1812.

And finally, one of the first white people born on the American continent is Conrad Heyer, who posed for a photographer back in 1852 at the age of 103! He served in the army under the command of George Washington himself and participated in the Revolution. People from the era of the 17th century - from the 16xx - looked into the same eyes into which we look now!

1852 - the oldest person ever posed for a photograph by year of birth was photographed. Posed for a photographer at the age of 103!

Unlike Niepce, Louis Daguerre left his own photographic portrait as a legacy to humanity. He was such an imposing and handsome gentleman.

Moreover, thanks to his daguerreotype, a photograph of his competitor from England, William Henry Fox Talbot, has reached us. 1844

Talbot invented a fundamentally different photography technology, much closer to the film cameras of the 20th century. He called it calotype - an unaesthetic name for a Russian-speaking person, but in Greek it means “beautiful imprint” (kalos-typos). You can use the name “talbotype”. The commonality between calotypes and film cameras lies in the presence of an intermediate stage - a negative, through which an unlimited number of photographs can be produced. Actually, the terms “positive”, “negative” and “photography” were coined by John Herschel under the influence of calotypes. Talbot's first successful attempt dates back to 1835 - a photograph of a window in the Abbey in Lacock. Negative, positive and two modern photographs for comparison.

In 1835, only a negative was made; Talbot finally figured out the production of positives only in 1839, presenting the calotype to the public almost simultaneously with the daguerreotype. Daguerreotypes were of better quality, much clearer than calotypes, but due to the possibility of copying, calotype still occupied its niche. Moreover, it cannot be said unequivocally that Talbot's images are not beautiful. For example, the water on them appears much more alive than on daguerreotypes. Here, for example, is Lake Catherine in Scotland, photographed in 1844.

The 19th century has seen the light. In the 1840s, photography became available to all more or less wealthy families. And we, almost two centuries later, can see what ordinary people of that time looked like and what they wore.

Family photo from 1846 - the Adams couple with their daughter. You can often find this photograph referred to as a posthumous photograph, based on the child’s pose. In fact, the girl is just sleeping; she lived until the 1880s.

Daguerreotypes are indeed quite detailed, making it convenient to study the fashion of decades gone by. Anna Minerva Rogers Macomb was filmed in 1850.

The first devices for human flight were balloons. The picture shows the landing of one of these balls in 1850 on a Persian square (now the territory of Iran).

Photography became more and more popular; newly-minted photographers shot not only prim portraits with starched faces, but also very vivid scenes of the surrounding world. 1852, Anthony Falls.

But this photo from 1853 is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. Charles Negre shot it on the roofs of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and the artist Henry Le Sec posed for him. Both belonged to the first generation of photographers.

The conscience of Russian literature, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - this is how he looked in 1856. We will return to him later, and twice as much, because, despite the asceticism of this man and his closeness to ordinary people, advanced technologies surprisingly persistently reached out to him, trying to capture his image.

More and more new ways of photographing appeared. Here is a ferrotype from 1856 - a slightly blurry, but pleasant image in its own way, its soft halftones look more natural than the bold, clear contours of the daguerreotype.

Since photography became available to people, it means that at some point there must have been a desire to make changes to the resulting picture, to combine two different images or to distort them. 1858 is the year when the first photomontage was made. “Fading” is the name of this work, composed of five different negatives. It depicts a girl dying of tuberculosis. The composition is very emotional, although I still don’t understand why there is photomontage here. The same scene could have been done without him.

The first aerial photograph was taken that same year. To pull this off, it was necessary to attach a miniature camera to the legs of a tame bird. How helpless man was then...

A scene from the 60s... 1860s. Several people go on a trip using the only mode of transport available in those years.

The Brooklyn Excelsiors baseball team. Yes, America's favorite sport has a long history.

The first color photo - 1861.
Like most other experimental photographs, this image is not rich in content. A checkered ribbon from a Scottish outfit is the whole composition with which the famous scientist James Clerk Maxwell decided to experiment. But it is colored. True, like Leon Scott's sound recordings, experiments with color remained experiments, and it was necessary to wait several more years before the regular production of color images from nature.

By the way, in the picture is the photographer himself.

They also tried to find practical applications for the photo. Guillaume Duchesne, a French neurologist, used photography to present to the public his experiments on studying the nature of human facial expressions. By stimulating the facial muscles with electrodes, he achieved the reproduction of such expressions as joy or agony. His photo reports in 1862 became one of the first book photo illustrations that were not artistic, but scientific in nature.

Some of the vintage photographs look very unusual. The strong contrast and sharp outlines create the illusion that the lady is sitting in the middle of an environment entirely carved from stone. 1860s.

In the 1860s, real Japanese samurai were still in service. Not costumed actors, but samurai as they are. Soon after the photograph was taken, the samurai would be abolished as a class.

Japanese ambassadors to Europe. 1860s. Fukuzawa Yukichi (second from left) acted as English-Japanese translator.

Images of ordinary people have also been preserved, not just representatives of high society. The photo from the 1860s shows an American army veteran and his wife.

As I mentioned, vintage photographs were often very clear and detailed. A fragment of a photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken in 1863 - a close-up of his eyes. Overall, this photograph seems to be an echo of something very distant, but when you zoom in, everything changes. A century and a half after the death of this man, his gaze still seems very alive and insightful to me, as if I were standing opposite the living and well Lincoln.

A little more material about the life of an outstanding person. Lincoln's first inauguration in 1861 - this photograph is strikingly different from most photographic materials of the 19th century. The cozy atmosphere of family photographs in the middle of Victorian chambers and the monumentality of portraits of starched celebrities seem like something long gone, while the seething crowd turns out to be much closer to the noisy everyday life of the 21st century.

Lincoln during the American Civil War, 1862. If you wish, you can find a lot of photographic materials about the war itself, filmed directly on the battlefield, in the barracks and during the transfer of troops.

Lincoln's second inauguration, 1864. The president himself can be seen in the center, holding a paper.

Again, a Civil War tent serving as an Army local post office somewhere in Virginia, 1863.

Meanwhile, in England everything is much calmer. 1864, photographer Valentine Blanchard photographed the walk of ordinary people along the Royal Road in London.

Photo from the same year - actress Sarah Bernhardt posing for Paul Nadar. The image and style she chose for this photo is so neutral and timeless that the photo could be labeled as 1980, 1990 or 2000, and almost no one would be able to dispute this, since many photographers still shoot with black and white film .

First color photograph - 1877.
But let's get back to photography. It was time to shoot something more impressive in color than a piece of multi-colored rag. The Frenchman Ducos de Hauron tried to do this using the triple exposure method - that is, photographing the same scene three times through filters and combining different materials during development. He named his way heliochromia. This is what the town of Angoulême looked like in 1877:

The color reproduction in this photo is imperfect; for example, the blue color is almost completely absent. Many animals with dichromatic vision see the world in much the same way. Here is an option that I tried to make more realistic by adjusting the color balance.

Here's another option, perhaps the closest to how the photo looks without color correction. You can imagine that you are looking through a bright yellow piece of glass, and then the effect of presence will be most powerful.

A lesser-known photo by Oron. View of the city of Agen. In general, it looks quite strange - the color palette is completely different (bright blue), the date is also confusing - 1874, that is, this photograph claims to be older than the previous one, although the previous photograph is considered the oldest surviving work by Oron. It is quite possible that only a print remains of the heliochromia of 1874, and the original is irretrievably lost.

Still life with a rooster - another heliochrome by Oron, made in 1879. It is difficult to judge what we see in this color photo - a shot of stuffed birds, or a photocopy of a hand-drawn painting. At least the color rendition is impressive. Still, it's not good enough to justify such a complex photographic process. Therefore, the Oron method never became a widespread method of color photography.

But the black and white flourished. John Thompson was one of a breed of photographers who approached their work from an artistic point of view. He believed that smart and neat intellectuals, prim members of royal families, stern generals and pretentious politicians were not all that could be of interest to photography. There is another life. One of his most famous works, made in 1876 or 1877, is a photo of a tired beggar woman sitting sadly at the porch. The work is called “The Unhappy - Life on the Streets of London”.

Railroads were the very first urban mode of transport, and by 1887 they already had a history of fifty years. It was in this year that the photograph of the Minneapolis junction railway station was taken. As you can see, freight trains and the man-made urban landscape are not very different from modern ones.

But the culture and ways of presenting it in those years were completely different. Radio and television, the Internet and multimedia libraries - all this will appear later, many, many years later. Until then, people, without leaving their homes, could only get verbal descriptions of life, traditions and cultural objects of other countries from newspapers. The only opportunity to get more deeply in touch with the culture of the whole world, seeing its artifacts with your own eyes, is through travel and exhibitions, for example, the World Exhibition, the most grandiose event of those times. Especially for the Exhibition, on the initiative of the Prince Consort of England, the Crystal Palace was built in the mid-19th century - a structure made of metal and glass, huge even by the standards of modern shopping and entertainment centers. The exhibition ended, but the Crystal Palace remained, becoming a permanent place for the exhibition of literally everything - from antiques to the latest technical innovations. In the summer of 1888, the Handel Festival took place in the huge concert hall of the Crystal Palace - a luxurious musical performance with the participation of hundreds of musicians and thousands of singers. The collage of photographs shows the concert hall during the various years of the Crystal Palace's existence until its destruction in the fire of 1936.

Intercity passenger transport 1889

Canals in Venice "Venetian Canal" (1894) by Alfred Stieglitz

A very lively photo... but something else was missing. What? Oh yes, the colors. Color was still needed, and not as an experiment, but as a...

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Most first The photograph in the world was taken in 1826 by the Frenchman Joseph Niepce. View from the window on Le Gras.

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The photo was taken by Louis Daguerre. The photo is called: Boulevard du Temple "Boulevard du Temple". View from the window onto a busy street. The exposure was 10 minutes, all the people on the streets blurred and disappeared, except for one person who stood motionless and became visible in the lower left part of the photo. Film parameters and working ISO are unknown.

1839

Self-portrait of Robert Cornelius, dagueratype. He was one of the first to open a private photo studio in the USA, but soon lost interest in it and took up the family business - the production and sale of gas lanterns.

The words written on the back in Cornelius's own hand read: "The first picture ever seen. 1839." It's very interesting to see the other side...

1839

The first woman on photos was Dorothy Catherine Draper, photographed by her brother, American photographer John Draper.

By the way, in the same year 1839. I present

1840

The first photograph of the Moon was taken by John W. Draper.

1850

First erotic photo. Author: Frenchman Felix Jacquet Antoine Moulin.

In 76 years, Playboy magazine founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner will be born.

1856

The oldest underwater photo was taken by William Thompson in 1856. During the shooting, the camera was installed on the seabed near Weymont, UK.

1858

32 years after the first photos, Henry Peach Robinson made a photo montage. Fading Away is a photograph combined from five negatives. The photo shows a girl who died of tuberculosis and her relatives gathered around.

1860

In 1858, photographer and balloonist Gaspard-Felix Tournache (Nadar) photographed Paris from a hot air balloon. But unfortunately these shots did not survive to us. Therefore, the authorship is sometimes attributed to James Wallace Black, who in 1860 took the photo “Boston as seen by an eagle and a wild goose.”

1861

Tartan ribbon" or "Tartan ribbon".

The first color photograph appeared in 1861. A multi-colored image obtained by physicist James Clerk Maxwell and photographer Thomas Sutton using three filters - blue, green and red - and demonstrated during a lecture on the characteristics of color vision at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on May 17, 1861.

1877

The first color photograph of real objects, 1877. The photo is called “Landscape of Southern France”. By Louis Ducos du Hauron.

1882

The first photograph of a natural phenomenon - lightning, William Jennings managed to capture this natural phenomenon in 1882.

1895

The first x-ray was a photograph of the hand of Wilhelm Roentgen's wife.

1903

The first photographs in history from the air. They were made in 1903. The inventor of this method was Julius Neubronner. For this purpose, he attached cameras with a timer to the pigeons.

1908

The first color photograph in Russia was published in “Notes of the Russian Technical Society” in 1908. It was a portrait of Leo Tolstoy (left) by the pioneer of Russian color photos Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. Actually, he did first color photographs presumably dating back to 1902.

1913

The first teenager to take a selfie was Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova (4th daughter of Emperor Nicholas II).

Royal selfie

1920

The classic selfie arose extremely late, in December 1920. The reason for this is the objective complexity: it is problematic to hold a weighty device at arm's length for several seconds, or even minutes. We had to bring together as many as five New York photographers to pull this off.

It shows five photographers (on the left, Joseph Byron, then Pierre MacDonald, Theodore Marceau, Pop Cor, Ben Faulk) posing on the terrace of Marceau's photo studio.

1926

In 1926, the first color underwater photograph was taken. The photo was taken by Dr. William Longley Charles Martin in the Gulf of Mexico.

Lappanella Jordan (Longfin wrasse).

1946

First The photo from space was taken on October 24, 1946. The photo was taken with a 35mm camera mounted on a rocket and fired 65 miles above the Earth.

1957

The world's first digital image. American technologist and inventor Russell A. Kirsch worked with a group of scientists to invent the scanner in 1957. Having created a prototype, Kirsch, wanting to test the device, scanned a photo of his son Walden. The photo had a resolution of 176x176.

1959

The first photograph of the far side of the Moon, taken by the Soviet Luna 3 satellite on October 7, 1959.

1966

Terry Fincher's first extreme selfie.

1972

In 1972, the first color photograph of a fully illuminated earth appeared. The photograph is considered very famous and is called The Blue Marble. It was taken by the Apollo 17 team on December 7, 1972.

The Blue Marble.

1975

The first photograph of another planet. The image was taken by the Venera 9 spacecraft in 1975.

1976

The first image of Mars, 1976 Taken by the American Viking 1 spacecraft shortly after landing on the red planet in 1976.

Almost 200 years ago, Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niepce smeared a thin layer of asphalt on a metal plate and exposed it to the sun in a camera obscura. This is how he received the world's first “reflection of the visible.” The picture did not turn out to be of the best quality, but this is where the history of photography begins.

Just some 30-40 years ago, a significant part of photographs, films, and television programs were black and white. Many people have no idea that color photography appeared much earlier than we think. On May 17, 1861, the famous English physicist James Maxwell, during a lecture on the peculiarities of color vision at the Royal Institution in London, showed the world's first color photograph - “A Tartan Ribbon”.

Since then, photography, in addition to turning from black and white to color, has received many more varieties: aerial and space photography, photomontage and x-rays, self-portraiture, underwater photography and 3D photography have appeared.

1826 - first and oldest photograph

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French photographer, took this photo using an eight-hour shutter speed. It's called "View from a Window at Le Gras" and has been shown in recent years at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

1838 - first photograph of another person

Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of another person in 1838. The photo of Boulevard du Temple shows a busy street that appears deserted (shutter speed 10 minutes, so there is no movement), except for one person in the lower left of the photo (visible when zoomed in).

1858 - first photomontage

In 1858, Henry Peach Robinson performed the first photomontage, combining several negatives into a single image.

The first and most famous composite photograph was called Fading Away - it consists of five negatives. The death of a girl from tuberculosis is depicted. The work caused a lot of controversy.

1861 - first color photograph

James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist, took the first color photograph in 1861. The photographic plates used in the process are now kept in the house where Maxwell was born (now a museum), at 14 India Street in Edinburgh.

1875 - first self-portrait

The famous American photographer Matthew Brady was the first person to photograph himself, i.e. took a self-portrait.

1903 - first photograph taken from the air

The first aerial photographers were birds. In 1903, Julius Neubronner connected a camera and a timer and attached it to the neck of a pigeon. This invention was taken note of by the German army and used for military reconnaissance.

1926 - first color underwater photography

The first underwater color photograph was taken in the Gulf of Mexico by Dr. William Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin in 1926.

1946 - first photograph from space

On October 24, 1946, a 35mm camera mounted on a V-2 rocket took a photo from 105 km above the Earth.

1972 - first photograph of a fully illuminated Earth

The first photograph to show a fully illuminated Earth is known as The Blue Marble. The photo was taken on December 7, 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft.

In what year was the first selfie taken, what became the reason for creating the first fake photograph, and how photojournalism began.

Over the almost 200 years of its existence, photography has come a long and interesting way. For example, her official year of birth is considered to be 1839, but the first photograph (which has survived to this day) was taken earlier - in 1826 or 1827. The first digital camera was invented in 1975, and the first digital photograph was taken in 1957.

Our selection includes these and 18 other “first” shots in the amazing history of photography.

1. First photo

The first photograph taken with a camera dates back to 1826 (less commonly, 1827). The image, taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and known as “View from the Window at Le Gras,” was created using a camera obscura on a plate coated with a thin layer of bitumen. The bitumen on different parts of the plate froze depending on the amount of light that fell on it, then the unexposed bitumen was washed off. Niépce called this technology heliography - “solar writing.”

2. The first photograph of a person

The first photograph of a person was taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838. Daguerre filmed a view from a window onto a busy Paris street, the Boulevard du Temple; The shutter speed was almost 10 minutes, which is why it was not possible to capture passers-by in the photo - they simply were not in one place long enough to remain in the picture. However, in the lower left corner a man can be seen standing, having his shoes shined. Later, analysis of the photograph made it possible to establish that there were other people depicted in it - can you find them?

3. First selfie

Long before selfies became fashionable, American photographer Robert Cornelius took the first self-portrait. This was in 1839. To capture himself, Cornelius had to pose for more than a minute.

4. The first photograph of the moon

The first photograph of the Earth's satellite was taken on March 26, 1840 by John Draper. This daguerreotype was taken from the observatory at New York University. Judging by the state of the photograph, it has suffered a lot over more than a century and a half since it was taken.

5. First fake photo

The first fake photo was taken by Hippolyte Bayard in 1840. Bayard and Louis Daguerre claimed the title of “Father of Photography.” According to some sources, Bayard invented his process for taking photographs before Daguerre created the daguerreotype. However, the announcement of his invention was delayed, and the glory of the discoverer went to Daguerre. As a protest, Bayard made this staged self-portrait, accompanied by a signature about his suicide due to the fact that his work was not appreciated.

6. The first photo of the president

The first American president to be photographed was John Quincy Adams, the sixth head of the United States. However, this daguerreotype was made in 1843, and Adams left his post in 1829. The first president to be photographed while in office was James Polk. His photo was taken in 1849.

7. First photo of the sun

The first photograph of the sun was taken by French physicists Louis Fizeau and Léon Foucault on April 2, 1845, using a daguerreotype process (don't tell Bayard!) and a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second. Upon closer inspection, you may notice sunspots.

8. First news photo

The name of the first photojournalist in history has not been preserved, but his work is. A daguerreotype made in 1847 depicts the arrest of a man in France.

9. First aerial photography

The first aerial photograph was taken in 1860. Of course, they filmed it not from a drone, but from a hot air balloon. The photographer, James Wallace Black, titled his image “Boston as seen by an eagle and a wild goose.”

10. First color photograph

The first color photograph was taken by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, at a lecture at the Royal Institution, as evidence of his theory about photography in color. It was another person who actually clicked the shutter - photographer Thomas Sutton, the inventor of the first SLR camera, but the authorship is attributed to Maxwell, since it was he who developed the process of obtaining a color image.

11. The first color landscape photograph

The first landscape photograph in color was taken in 1877. The photographer, Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron, was a pioneer of color photography and the creator of the color printing process that was used for this image. It captures the landscape of the south of France, as indicated by the title of the image - “Landscape of the south of France.”

12. First photo of lightning

Lightning is an extremely interesting subject to photograph. The first photographer to capture this phenomenon was William Jennings. The photo was taken in 1882.

13. First photo of a tornado

This tornado was captured in 1884 by farmer and amateur photographer A.A. Adams from Kansas. The photo was taken with a box camera from a distance of 22 kilometers from the tornado.

14. The first photo of the plane crash

Disasters are not the most pleasant subjects to photograph. But studying such cases can help find and correct mistakes in order to prevent tragedies in the future. This 1908 photo shows the death of aviator Thomas Selfridge. His aircraft was an experimental development of the aircraft manufacturing company Aerial Experiment Association. Orville Wright was on the plane with Selfridge, but he survived the crash.

15. The first photo from space

The first photograph from space was taken on October 24, 1946, from V-2 rocket No. 13. The black and white photograph captured the Earth from an altitude of more than 100 kilometers. The image was captured with a 35mm movie camera, which took a photo every 1.5 seconds throughout the rocket's takeoff.

16. First rocket launch from Cape Canaveral

The first launch from Cape Canaveral was captured on photo in July 1950 - a NASA photographer filmed the launch of the two-stage research rocket Bumper 2. The photo also shows a number of other photographers who photographed this event.

17. First digital photograph

The first digital photograph was taken in 1957, almost 20 years before a Kodak engineer invented the first digital camera. A photograph is a digital scan of a frame originally taken on film. Pictured is the son of Russell Kirsch, inventor of the digital scanner. The image resolution is 176×176: a square photo, quite suitable for Instagram.

18. First photo of the far side of the Moon

The first photo of the “dark” side of the Moon was taken from the Soviet Luna 3 station on October 7, 1959. Based on the images sent by the interplanetary station, the first map of the far side of the satellite, not visible from Earth, was compiled.

19. The first photograph of the Earth from the Moon

The Earth was first photographed from the Moon on August 23, 1966. The photo was taken by the Lunar Orbiter during its 16th orbit around the satellite.

20. First photo from Mars

The first photograph of Mars was taken by the Viking 1 spacecraft, shortly after it landed on the surface of the red planet. The photograph is dated July 20, 1976; Viking images made it possible to study the surface of Mars and its structure.

This is not a complete list of the very “first” photographs in history - the first underwater photo, the first wedding photo, the first portrait of a woman, the first photo montage, and much more were left behind the scenes. Not every one of them depicts a historical moment, but they are all historical moments in themselves.

This photograph, entitled “View from a Window,” was taken by photography pioneer Joseph Nicéphore Niepce in 1826. The shot was taken from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate in Burgundy, France. The image was produced using a process known as heliography.

The first color photograph was created by physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell in 1861. This is a picture of a three-color bow called a Tartan Ribbon (or Tartan Ribbon).

NASA photographers photographed the first launch at Cape Canaveral in July 1950. The two-stage Bumper 2 rocket you see in the frame contained a V-2 rocket (upper stage) and a WAC Corporal (lower stage).

The first digital photograph was taken in 1957; almost 20 years before Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the first digital camera. This is a digital scan of a photograph originally taken on film. It shows Russell Kirsch's son.

The first photograph of a person is considered to be the picture you see above. It was made by Louis Daguerre. The exposure lasted about seven minutes. The shot captures the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. In the lower left corner of the photo you can see a man who stopped to clean his shoes.

Robert Cornelius set up his camera and took the world's first self-portrait while on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. He sat in front of the lens for just over a minute before the lens closed. This historical selfie was taken in 1839.

The first hoax photograph was taken in 1840 by Hippolyte Bayard, who competed with Louis Daguerre in claiming the title of “father of photography.” Bayard was supposedly the first to develop a photographic process, but delayed reporting his achievement. And the efficient Daguerre presented a report on the daguerreotype without mentioning Bayard, who, in despair, made his self-portrait with a regrettable signature. It said that the inconsolable inventor drowned himself.

The first aerial photograph was taken from a hot air balloon in 1860. It depicts the city of Boston from a height of 610 meters. The photographer, James Wallace Black, titled his work “Boston as Seen by the Eagle and the Wild Goose.”

The first photograph (daguerreotype) of the Sun was taken by French physicists Louis Fizeau and Foucault Leon on April 2, 1845.

The first photograph from space was taken from the V-2 rocket, which was launched on October 24, 1946. This is a black and white image of the Earth taken with a 35 mm camera at an altitude of 104.6 km.

The photojournalist's name is unknown, but this image, taken in 1847, is considered the first news photograph. It shows a man who was detained by police in France.

John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, became the first head of state to have his photograph taken. The daguerreotype was taken in 1843, many years after Adams left office.

This photograph was taken by photographer William Jennings in 1882.

Disasters are not the most pleasant topic, but you can learn from the mistakes of the past. This photo was taken in 1908, when aviator Thomas Selfridge died, becoming the first victim of an air crash.

John William Draper was the first to photograph the Moon on March 26, 1840. He obtained the image using daguerreotype from the rooftop observatory at New York University.

The first color landscape, showing the world natural colors, was filmed in 1877. Photographer Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron, a pioneer of color photography, captured the landscape in the south of France.

The Earth was photographed from the Moon on August 23, 1966. This image was taken from the Lunar Orbiter traveling in close proximity to the Earth's satellite.

Nature sometimes demonstrates its enormous destructive power. This image of a tornado was taken in 1884 in Anderson County, Kansas. Amateur photographer A.A. Adams was 22.5 km from the tornado.