The Daguerre street scene is the first photograph of a human being: the fellow having his shoes shined was the only one who stood still long enough to register on the plate.
Incredible to think that nearly 200 years ago people took photos that still impact us today. Photos gave rise to film which led to video and eventually smart phones.
That man having his shoes shined in that street in Paris might well have seen Napoleon in person in one parade or another somewhere in the city of Paris...
@@danielcarneiro5483 Will the 21st Century napoleon succeed Him? That is, these 2 Air Force Videos:1) "Lt. Napoleon" by NowASiuan, and 2) "Lieutenant Napoleon" by Hanz327. There was also this fiction novel written back in the 20th century called THE RED NAPOLEON.
The problem with his "essence of photography" was that it took single, unique images. William Henry Fox Talbot - at roughly the same time - had invented the negative-positive process which allowed the production of multiple copies. For a century and a half, until the invention of digital photography, that was how photographs were made. To me, that is the "essence of photography." Best wishes from Vermont ❄️
These photos were taken before the abolition of slavery in America and Brazil, before the Mexican-American war, the civil war, the Spanish American war etc we can see the future of the people of these pictures.
@@Iamme516These photos were taken long before the invention of automobile. It means we can see horse buggies and carriages in the 19th photos, which I find fascinating.
It took a lot of work to get there. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce had invented a process, but the image quality wasn't thrilling. Also, recent scholarship indicates his famous first photograph of 1927 took several DAYS, not eight hours as previously thought. Daguerre kept pushing to have a better image and a shorter exposure time.
Which of these would you regard as the earliest high quality photo ? The "laced window" negative to positive by Fox-Talbot 1835 seems a decent candidate
There's some evidence that Thomas Wedgewood took photographs around the year 1800 but was unable to prevent them from fading. It would be interesting if one of those has survived somewhere
Recent scholarship based on Niépce's notes and recreating his processes indicates his famous first photograph ca. 1827 took several DAYS, not eight hours as previously thought.
What great video and photographs! I like them so much because it takes my mind far back into the past Keep up the good work and rewarding views for us interested viewers✌️👍
WOW!!!!! That was amazing. I wonder how people at that time reacted seeing these photos. I never knew photography is that old. That for showing and sharing these photos to us.
Cool pictures. I wonder if they lived happy lives? Two hundred years from now when people look of photos from our time, they might wonder the same things.
Now that I just turned 62 I realize that when I was young these seemed like lights years old but time has passed in leaps and I see that it's not really that long ago, I find aging strange, for lack of s better term.
I saw a pic of a lighthouse in St Augustine in 1824 supposedly. Obviously they exaggerated these dates. There are no photographs of Florida taken in the 1820s or 1830s. The first known photos taken in Florida date to the 1860s.
Apparently they are photos of etchings (artwork). I found that strange to be the first things to photograph instead of something like the leaves, statues, and buildings later shown. I guess people were too challenging to photograph until they got holding a pose perfected for timing.
@@Deadbond1 there is no written or another evidence that Indians were kept as slaves.. offcource they were ruled by British but mostly local Indians used to be clerks peons assistants when they were given jobs in other English colonies..but that was not the case of Africans tho...lol
@@vinayak90417 hi, this comment was very old, I remember I was replying to a person called indian lover. I don't know how his comment disappeared! Or he changed his name. So basically, he loved the time 1800, and I disagreed. Thanks for noticing this and seeking clarification. Appreciated
The mystery behind that photo was recently solved. The photo is not a Wedgewood photo, but made by an amateur named Sarah Anne Bright, Circa 1839-1840. The "W" on the photo was the mark of William West, an entrepreneur who sold photogenic stock paper to those interested in experimenting with photography. I thought of including it when making this video, but left it out because by 1839, contact photos seemed less interesting when compared with other groundbreaking photos from the same time. Accounts of Wedgewood's experiments reveal that his photos of 1800 - 1802 were microscopically small, blurry, and had to be viewed by candle light only, or they would fade in seconds. So far, no authentic Wedgewood photos have been found.
Love myself some super vintage photos. I saw something interesting. There was a picture on the wall of one of these photos. I wonder how old is that picture.
Fascinating, truly. I get lost in videos like this. I just flashed back on what a little girl I used to babysit (a long, LONG time ago) said when we looked at a book of black and white pictures. She looked up at me and asked when color was invented, and she didn't mean color photos; she meant actual COLOR. I still laugh about that now.
Vue de Notre-Dame de Paris en 1838, à 3'56, avant les restaurations de Viollet-le,-Duc, la flèche, abattue fin 18eme n'est pas encore reconstruite. Le Paris d'avant Hausmann décrit par Balzac...
I'm happy to present the photos other uploaders of 'oldest photos' usually skip or are unaware of : the real works of discovery and experimentation of an emerging technology, some of which are only partially successful, but pave the way ahead.
The picture of the guy pulling the horse near the start of the video is NOT a photo! I've seen all the oldest photos many times and never encountered that one. Also it's a drawing
Niepce's earliest experiments were photographically created copies of artwork, made as a proof of concept, before he attempted to photograph scenes of nature like the scene from Le Gras. The subject matter is a 17th century Flemish engraving, but you are not looking at the original, you are looking at his Heliograph of it. Therefore, it IS a photograph
Heliograph is the name Niepce gave to his photographic process, meaning "sun drawing'. This process, when merged with Daguerre's improvements, led to the Daguerreotype.
The bottom of the 1823 photo says: "Gravure heliographique obtenue par la morsure de l'eau forte versee sur le zinc impressionne par la lumiere - Mai 1. 1823 par J.N. Niepce" The left part says “10%” The right part shows “6.” Translating the text in the middle correctly gives you this result: "Heliographic engraving obtained by the etching of acid poured on zinc impressed by light - May 8, 1823 by J.N. Niepce"
I don't believe the 'first verified photograph' is real: early photos needed long exposures, and thus still subjects. The boy and the horse are in motion.
The photo you refer to is not a scene from nature, but a photographic reproduction of a hand made engraving. Niepce made it as a proof of concept as part of his experiments.
@@davidrodgersNJ Don't tell that to The Bibliotheque Nationale de France, who bought the original for 450,000 Francs in 2002. They have deemed it a 'National Treasure'.
Think of this. When these photos were taken, the use of electricity was in it's infancy. The electric light was just starting to be tinkered with. Indoor plumbing wasn't even heard of yet.
When these early photos were first taken, the automobile was not invented yet. It means we can see horse drawn buggies and carriages in the 19th century photos. Fascinating!!
@@davidhutchinson7888 I didn't say it was invented, it was being tinkered with. In fact, experiments with incandescence was going on in the 18th century.
The Daguerre street scene is the first photograph of a human being: the fellow having his shoes shined was the only one who stood still long enough to register on the plate.
That is correct. I've often thought it sad the first person to ever be photographed was not even aware of it.
Why???
And here we are in 2023. Two hundred years later. Incredible to think it's been around that long.
Incredible to think that nearly 200 years ago people took photos that still impact us today. Photos gave rise to film which led to video and eventually smart phones.
Oh boy!
That man having his shoes shined in that street in Paris might well have seen Napoleon in person in one parade or another somewhere in the city of Paris...
He would be dead he died in 1821
@@cars_oneboy he's talking about the guy shining his shoes in the photo in 4:08
@@danielcarneiro5483 yes but that was taken in 1838 but Napoleon died in 1821
@@ColbyEaton but that man could have seen Napoleon while Napolen was still alive, that's what the comment meant
@@danielcarneiro5483 Will the 21st Century napoleon succeed Him? That is, these 2 Air Force Videos:1) "Lt. Napoleon" by NowASiuan, and 2) "Lieutenant Napoleon" by Hanz327. There was also this fiction novel written back in the 20th century called THE RED NAPOLEON.
It's like peering into the past through a mist. It feels very exciting each time they have a technical improvement.
Louis Daguerre was the best. He captured the essence of photography.
He had an artist's eye.
He was such a brilliant genius!! I am in awe of him!!
The problem with his "essence of photography" was that it took single, unique images. William Henry Fox Talbot - at roughly the same time - had invented the negative-positive process which allowed the production of multiple copies. For a century and a half, until the invention of digital photography, that was how photographs were made.
To me, that is the "essence of photography."
Best wishes from Vermont ❄️
@TheStockwell
Not at the same time, few years after the invention and his photos are quite primitive to compare
It's amazing to be able to see photographs from 200 years ago when the world as we know was like a completely different dimension.
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These photos were taken before the abolition of slavery in America and Brazil, before the Mexican-American war, the civil war, the Spanish American war etc we can see the future of the people of these pictures.
@@Iamme516These photos were taken long before the invention of automobile. It means we can see horse buggies and carriages in the 19th photos, which I find fascinating.
@@Iamme516I meant 19th century. Ooops!
I guess it's safe to say it was Daguerre who first took high quality photos, at least judging from this video
It took a lot of work to get there. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce had invented a process, but the image quality wasn't thrilling. Also, recent scholarship indicates his famous first photograph of 1927 took several DAYS, not eight hours as previously thought. Daguerre kept pushing to have a better image and a shorter exposure time.
Which of these would you regard as the earliest high quality photo ? The "laced window" negative to positive by Fox-Talbot 1835 seems a decent candidate
@@TheStockwellI know you meant 1827, not 1927.
1835, quite late.
2:13, that's a clear picture even for today's standards. And from 1835... wow.
I think that there are a few more people in the photograph, in windows etc. Maybe the first Where's Wally.
Love these images! Ghostly and romantic
The origin and evolution of early photography is endlessly fascinating.
Wow, to think the first one is almost TWO HUNDRED years old!!!
Yep I knew it was around 200 years old
IKR! It's approx. a couple of centuries old! THAT is impressively interesting!!
The time was less than 50 yrs from the 1700s and when george washington died just only 29 yrs ago and 60 yrs after the american revolutions.
I wonder why that one looks like some kind of engraving. Doesn't look like a regular photogragh.
There's some evidence that Thomas Wedgewood took photographs around the year 1800 but was unable to prevent them from fading. It would be interesting if one of those has survived somewhere
Merci, formidable et très émouvant de regarder ces photographies âgées de presque 200 ans, merveilleux
The picture "Still life" from Louis Daguerre is incredible good!
3:39
@@rickysld literal chad
Agreed!! I am in awe of Louis Daguerre who was certainly a brilliant inventor!! He likely had such a superior IQ!!
Thanks for featuring the rarely seen ones
I believe that first nature photo of 1827 'view from a window' took something like 24 hours to fully reach exposure!
Leode Siefast. More like 8 hours
@@avishalom2000lm
You're right. About eight hrs.
It actually took 8 hours.
Recent scholarship based on Niépce's notes and recreating his processes indicates his famous first photograph ca. 1827 took several DAYS, not eight hours as previously thought.
@@TheStockwell 1827 not 1927
What great video and photographs! I like them so much because it takes my mind far back into the past Keep up the good work and rewarding views for us interested viewers✌️👍
WOW!!!!! That was amazing. I wonder how people at that time reacted seeing these photos. I never knew photography is that old. That for showing and sharing these photos to us.
"Still life" and that from London in 1839 is amazing
Cool pictures. I wonder if they lived happy lives? Two hundred years from now when people look of photos from our time, they might wonder the same things.
Love stories like these👍
Amazing and rarely seen photos.Thanks .
there were many more early photographs that did not survive time.
Thank you for sharing really amazing photos!
I'm very grateful to have been presented with this fascinating slide through the growth of photography from it's infancy. Excellent. 👍
The Niepce table setting image is actually not as grainy.
Now that I just turned 62 I realize that when I was young these seemed like lights years old but time has passed in leaps and I see that it's not really that long ago, I find aging strange, for lack of s better term.
imagine how old those books were at that time in the library!!! probably over 100 years old then!
Thank you. This is great.
Daguerreotypes are amazing. I love the ones of Paris
The photos in my old high school yearbook (Senior class of 1974) were of similar quality.
4:00 aw its nice to see Notre Dame looked basically the same way back then. And to think we accidentally set it on fire 180 years later, oops
and that it won't be repaired as it was, but instead as an offering to "diversity"
I have seen a photograph taken of a lighthouse in St. John's county Florida, I believe. It was taken some time around 1833, supposed
JGC if it really is from 1833 then that’s a really REALLY early photograph
I saw a pic of a lighthouse in St Augustine in 1824 supposedly. Obviously they exaggerated these dates. There are no photographs of Florida taken in the 1820s or 1830s. The first known photos taken in Florida date to the 1860s.
For perspective- some of these were taken only about 50 years after the American Revolution.
Great man Louis Daguerre was!
Robert Cornelius looks like Adam Ant.
amazing and invaluable photos! 👍
Amyエイミー *invaluable?*
@@cryofrostrs3856 They mean like priceless
@@wegotthistogether9443 They are very valuable to history.
@@cryofrostrs3856 Priceless meaning so incredible that it is beyond price, not worthless.
And to think before then all we had were our eyes and minds to remember things.
Amazing! Thank you!
Great post! Excuse me to ask, when it says Greek engraving means people from Greece? or is it something else?
It's a photographic copy of a lithograph by Armant Gaillat, and it's title translated into English is "A Greek Couple".
Oh, I see! Thanks very much, ευχαριστώ πολύ!
The oldest ones look like paintings
Apparently they are photos of etchings (artwork). I found that strange to be the first things to photograph instead of something like the leaves, statues, and buildings later shown. I guess people were too challenging to photograph until they got holding a pose perfected for timing.
6:47 dá para ver o reflexo do fotógrafo ou é impressão minha?
way to fast in the pictures and way to slow in the caption, invert that and will be perfect
Guyz there is people like us in 1800 I am very lucky to be see this photos I am crying incredible I think people was nice at that time this is nice
Indian lover at that time, they will take you as a Slave bro.. don't think that
Deadbond1 but the only slave is in Africa I didn't know he's gonna be a slave or something
@@Deadbond1 there is no written or another evidence that Indians were kept as slaves.. offcource they were ruled by British but mostly local Indians used to be clerks peons assistants when they were given jobs in other English colonies..but that was not the case of Africans tho...lol
@@vinayak90417 hi, this comment was very old, I remember I was replying to a person called indian lover.
I don't know how his comment disappeared! Or he changed his name.
So basically, he loved the time 1800, and I disagreed.
Thanks for noticing this and seeking clarification. Appreciated
Their was good and bad their to
Amazing although the early pictures look like the ones i made in high school com tech class.
where is the leaf by thomas wedgewood circa 1800?
The mystery behind that photo was recently solved. The photo is not a Wedgewood photo, but made by an amateur named Sarah Anne Bright, Circa 1839-1840. The "W" on the photo was the mark of William West, an entrepreneur who sold photogenic stock paper to those interested in experimenting with photography. I thought of including it when making this video, but left it out because by 1839, contact photos seemed less interesting when compared with other groundbreaking photos from the same time. Accounts of Wedgewood's experiments reveal that his photos of 1800 - 1802 were microscopically small, blurry, and had to be viewed by candle light only, or they would fade in seconds. So far, no authentic Wedgewood photos have been found.
Joe Orbin ah ok thanks for that. If only he hadn't died early he may well have discovered how to fix the images. Great collection of photos btw.
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound So that would mean they had a 2D optical analog delay-line before they had photography...
Qe fascinante!! Ojala pudieramos meternos en las fotos y ver del otro lado!!! Magia!!
To think we has photos from when beethoven was alive is crazy
Lmaooo my first thought
Most of these are better quality than security camera vids on motels now days
Love myself some super vintage photos. I saw something interesting.
There was a picture on the wall of one of these photos. I wonder how old is that picture.
At 1:02 Jésus on photo, it's exceptionnal, very interresting ! 🤣
Very historic photo👍🏻
These are so haunting 💜💙🖤It's like one day we will be a distant memory from the past too and our selfies will be somewhere by 2150 or so...
I think the photo From germany was a curch in munich (Bavaria south germany)
Yes, it is the „Frauenkirche“ - in München (Munich) Bayern/Bavaria
Damn, I bet Robert Cornelius had the ladies swooning over him.
Agreed!! I would have also swooned over him if I was a young lady in his day.
That first one looks like some sort of view or building
Is like a view of a part of a city
Fascinating, truly. I get lost in videos like this. I just flashed back on what a little girl I used to babysit (a long, LONG time ago) said when we looked at a book of black and white pictures. She looked up at me and asked when color was invented, and she didn't mean color photos; she meant actual COLOR. I still laugh about that now.
So incredible!! Thank you!
Dude, Napoleon Bonaparte died just 4-3 years before that first picture
Excellent post. A little Debussy would have gone well along side 🎶
Vue de Notre-Dame de Paris en 1838, à 3'56, avant les restaurations de Viollet-le,-Duc, la flèche, abattue fin 18eme n'est pas encore reconstruite. Le Paris d'avant Hausmann décrit par Balzac...
it's Joseph Nicephore NIEPCE ^^ ;-)
とても素晴らしい動画でした😆👍✨‼️
I find it very hard to believe that the first picture was an action shot... but oooook.
Those were the the most spectacular smudges I have ever seen 🤣🇺🇸
Hey. What are these photos. I can't see anything what's going on
I'm happy to present the photos other uploaders of 'oldest photos' usually skip or are unaware of : the real works of discovery and experimentation of an emerging technology, some of which are only partially successful, but pave the way ahead.
I had an old camera....worked too! You had to stand still for EVER if you wanted a good pic. We donated it to our state museum.
wow!! incredible
The first pictures were of engravings? Isn't that like using VR to explore your own house?
Frozen in time.
Time was forced to stand still.
Thank you.
The picture of the guy pulling the horse near the start of the video is NOT a photo! I've seen all the oldest photos many times and never encountered that one. Also it's a drawing
Niepce's earliest experiments were photographically created copies of artwork, made as a proof of concept, before he attempted to photograph scenes of nature like the scene from Le Gras. The subject matter is a 17th century Flemish engraving, but you are not looking at the original, you are looking at his Heliograph of it. Therefore, it IS a photograph
Many of the earliest ones look a lot like the photos of Bigfoot that people take today!
What is heliograph ?
Heliograph is the name Niepce gave to his photographic process, meaning "sun drawing'. This process, when merged with Daguerre's improvements, led to the Daguerreotype.
Joe Orbin Thanx 😀
The bottom of the 1823 photo says:
"Gravure heliographique obtenue par la morsure de l'eau forte versee sur le zinc impressionne par la lumiere - Mai 1. 1823 par J.N. Niepce"
The left part says “10%”
The right part shows “6.”
Translating the text in the middle correctly gives you this result:
"Heliographic engraving obtained by the etching of acid poured on zinc impressed by light - May 8, 1823 by J.N. Niepce"
They even did selfies almost 200 years ago.
No way that photo is 200 years old
What photo?
6:33 He is very similar to Chopin.
Fascinating.
0:41 OK This Void meme is creepy af
Cathedrial?
Pictures of pictures?
The true OG photos men so rare
Thnx!😊
The men's haircut looked dapper
Euodia Percy dapper, like Dan?
Nice .Can some email old pictures for me?it would wonderful
With all the ginormous buildings of Tartaria including star forts I'm pretty sure photography didn't start this way.
Tom Thumb a little guy 1844.
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The first photo will be 200 next year as of writing this.
There my early imposable to see of course,it's amazing the still exist at all
Super
I don't believe the 'first verified photograph' is real: early photos needed long exposures, and thus still subjects. The boy and the horse are in motion.
The photo you refer to is not a scene from nature, but a photographic reproduction of a hand made engraving. Niepce made it as a proof of concept as part of his experiments.
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound A picture of reality would have been a much better proof of concept. Sorry but I still don't believe it.
@@davidrodgersNJ Don't tell that to The Bibliotheque Nationale de France, who bought the original for 450,000 Francs in 2002. They have deemed it a 'National Treasure'.
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound OK, I'll be sure not to mention it
Actually the oldest photograph is Leonardi da Vinci's Shroud of Turin, but Okay...if you say so.
There is no 1823 why did you not add 1823 pics
Photo no. 1, although there is still some mystery about its origin and subject matter, is thought to be from 1823.
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound I thought it said 1832 sorry
Wow
Think of this. When these photos were taken, the use of electricity was in it's infancy. The electric light was just starting to be tinkered with. Indoor plumbing wasn't even heard of yet.
Still not close, electric light was invented decades later
When these early photos were first taken, the automobile was not invented yet. It means we can see horse drawn buggies and carriages in the 19th century photos. Fascinating!!
@@davidhutchinson7888 I didn't say it was invented, it was being tinkered with. In fact, experiments with incandescence was going on in the 18th century.
Those are the birth of photography.tiktok is the birth of what?
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