What was the first photo taken?

Answer 1

This is the first camara ever made (not the one on the left)! This wooden sliding-box camera was made in Paris in September 1839 by Alphonse Giroux and was just recently discovered after having spent decades in private ownership in northern Germany.

Answer 2

The first image taken by a modern camera with light-sensitive salts on a glass plate was around 1834 by a Frenchman named Louis Daguerre. He patented the process and revealed it to the world in 1839. It was called a Daguerreotype. But it was back in the 11th century that the camera obscura was first invented as a light box for artists to do sketches. That was actually where the modern camera that we are so familiar with today got it's shortened name. So if you consider the camera obscura as the real fist camera then the images that it most likely "captured" were landscapes and portraits. Long before the first public announcements of photographic processes in 1839, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a scientifically-minded gentleman living on his country estate near Chalon-sur-Saône, France, began experimenting with Photography. Fascinated with the craze for the newly-invented art of lithography which swept over France in 1813, he began his initial experiments by 1816. Unable to draw well, Niépce first placed engravings, made transparent, onto engraving stones or glass plates coated with a light-sensitive varnish of his own composition. These experiments, together with his application of the then-popular optical instrument, the camera obscura, would eventually lead him to the invention of the new medium. In 1824 Niépce met with some degree of success in copying engravings, but it would be two years later before he had success utilizing pewter plates as the support medium for the process. By the summer of that year, 1826, Niépce was ready. In the window of his upper-story workroom at his Saint-Loup-de-Varennes country house, Le Gras, he set up a camera obscura, placed within it a polished pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea (an asphalt derivative of petroleum), and uncapped the lens. After at least a day-long exposure of eight hours, the plate was removed and the latent image of the view from the window was rendered visible by washing it with a mixture of oil of lavender and white petroleum which dissolved away the parts of the bitumen which had not been hardened by light. The result was the permanent direct positive picture you see here -- a one-of-a-kind photograph on pewter. It renders a view of the outbuildings, courtyard, trees and landscape as seen from that upstairs window. === See Web Links: For more information on this story and actual pictures of the first photograph ever taken

Answer 3

The first known chemical photograph was a view of buildings from a window at a place called Le Gras, in France. The picture was made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 (some sources say 1827), using a camera obscura to make an eight hour exposure on a polished pewter plate sensitized with bitumen. You can see the photograph at the Related Link below. It's not much to look at because of the long exposure. The buildings are lit from both sides.

Answer 4

The first picture taken with a camera was made in 1827 by the

Frenchman Nicephore Niepce. The picture is a view from his window at Le Gras. The picture is now at the Gernsheim Collection, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Answer 5

The first photographic image was taken by french inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.

"View from the Window at Le Gras," Saint-Loup-de-Varennes (France).