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Fleet · 06-24-2005, 12:27 AM

I found this in one of those old "Life" books series. This edition is called "Light and Vision." (1970)

Attached is what the book claims is the world's first photograph made in 1826 by Nicephore Niepce from a window in his estate in France... "For "film" Niepce used a sensitized pewter plate and he got a blurred image of the rooftops outlined above. This photograph is usually retouched to make it legible, but the version shown here is what it really looks like."

Photo is the top one, not the partial one on the bottom. The drawing to the right of the photograph shows better what was photographed.

AllIWantIsYourClutch · 06-24-2005, 12:31 AM

Oh how photography has evolved.

TheHappyBurgerMeister · 06-24-2005, 12:31 AM

wow, that's cool. Photography has really changed and improved a lot since then!

TripperFan · 06-24-2005, 12:33 AM

Thanks for posting that - that's cool!

Yah - people used to have to sit still for ages for a picture to be taken. That's why in a lot of the old portraits you didn't see them smile - they couldn't hold one that long.

Fleet · 06-24-2005, 12:35 AM

From the same book... the caption reads:

"A silver-on-copper plate made light-sensitive with silver iodide recorded this image of a Paris street, a daguerreotype made by L.J.M. Daguerre in 1839. It includes the first human ever photographed- a man having his shoes shined (right, foreground). The street was bustling but only this man was still long enough to be visible during the five-minute exposure."

Fleet · 06-24-2005, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by TripperFan

Yah - people used to have to sit still for ages for a picture to be taken. That's why in a lot of the old portraits you didn't see them smile - they couldn't hold one that long.

They also didn't smile because there was no Internet back then.

Warm & Fuzzy · 06-24-2005, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by TripperFan

Thanks for posting that - that's cool!

Yah - people used to have to sit still for ages for a picture to be taken. That's why in a lot of the old portraits you didn't see them smile - they couldn't hold one that long.

I heard they had "iron clamps" in the back to keep your spine straight and head up, too.

Thanks for sharing, Fleet!

Fleet · 06-24-2005, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by TheHappyBurgerMeister

wow, that's cool. Photography has really changed and improved a lot since then!

Yeah, I would say it's "slightly" better now!

TripperFan · 06-24-2005, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Fleet

Yeah, I would say it's "slightly" better now!

Oh more than that! I always think even my dad would be amazed now with the equipment and digital cameras. He and his brother were professional photographers. I remember seeing pictures of his brother using one of those huge, boxy black cameras with the cape thrown over the photographer! The little cameras and camera phones they have out now would floor them.

moeee · 06-24-2005, 12:58 AM

this is cool. thanks. we all learn something new everyday.

Dean Winchester · 06-24-2005, 12:59 AM

yea, when I took an art course, we learned all about the daguerreotypes from the 1830's and 1840's and also looked at the said photograph. It is really cool to go back and see this type of stuff

Fleet · 06-24-2005, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by TripperFan

I remember seeing pictures of his brother using one of those huge, boxy black cameras with the cape thrown over the photographer! The little cameras and camera phones they have out now would floor them.

What? Boxy black cameras with a cape? I thought they stopped using that around 1930?

Fleet · 06-24-2005, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by moeee

this is cool. thanks. we all learn something new everyday.

Yeah, even Homer would be impressed (or Lisa, at least).

Fleet · 06-25-2005, 02:49 AM

Here is an optical illusion from the same book. Which way is up?

Rhiannon · 06-25-2005, 09:34 AM

cool

06-24-2005, 12:27 AM	#1
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06-24-2005, 12:35 AM	#5
Fleet Mansions, limousines & H-ween Forum Star Join Date: Jan 06, 2002 Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, California Posts: 15,625	The First Human Ever Photographed From the same book... the caption reads: "A silver-on-copper plate made light-sensitive with silver iodide recorded this image of a Paris street, a daguerreotype made by L.J.M. Daguerre in 1839. It includes the first human ever photographed- a man having his shoes shined (right, foreground). The street was bustling but only this man was still long enough to be visible during the five-minute exposure." Attached Images

06-25-2005, 02:49 AM	#14
Fleet Mansions, limousines & H-ween Forum Star Join Date: Jan 06, 2002 Location: Northridge/Porter Ranch, California Posts: 15,625	Here is an optical illusion from the same book. Which way is up? Attached Images

06-24-2005, 12:31 AM	#2
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Dean Winchester Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Sep 28, 2003 Location: Louisville KY Posts: 14,803	yea, when I took an art course, we learned all about the daguerreotypes from the 1830's and 1840's and also looked at the said photograph. It is really cool to go back and see this type of stuff

06-25-2005, 09:34 AM	#15
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