I found this short video on You Tube. It is called ‘The Oldest Photographs In The World’, but is really examples of photographic firsts. The first known photos of people and buildings, the earliest photos of The Sun and The Moon, and the first underwater photographs. It comes up to date with the first photos from Space, and the first published on the Internet.
This is mainly of interest to photographers out there, but it is still worth your time to get the sense of history.
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Interesting!
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Glad you thought so, Jack.
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It must have seemed like magic at the time.
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Indeed it did, Janet.
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Very interesting.
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I thought so too.
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6.5 million! Could have had one of mine for a tenner! 😉
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Don’t sell cheap. Push it to £20! 🙂
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One day, we’ll see the first photo taken of an Earthling by an alien species…
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I hope I’m still around to meet the aliens, David. 🙂
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These photographic firsts are fascinating! I was surprised at the banality of the first photograph posted on the internet–then I wasn’t.
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Glad you enjoyed them, Liz.
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Most interesting!
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I thought so too.
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Thank you for sharing.
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I hope you enjoyed the photos, Molly.
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If we devoted all our talent toward positive development, how far would we get!
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A very long way, I suspect. Some humans seem to judge progress by how devastating the weapons they invent are. That’s sad.
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Thank you, yet again. XX
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My pleasure, dear Pippa.
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One wonders the motive or rational for the early ones. Experimentation? Warmest regards, Ed
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I suppose it must have been, Ed.
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It is amazing what the original boxes with a hole in them have evolved into, Warmest regards, Ed
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Absolutely fascinating!
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Glad you think so, Stevie.
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That first photo looks like the Pony Express.
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I can see what you mean, GP.
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Most of the riders were very young and that does look like a pony.
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wow. wow. so hard to imagine. these are certainly treasures
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Great to see them preserved for posterity.
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Damn those are great looks at history…..chuq
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Powerful images indeed, chuq.
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Surprisingly, I was able to view these today. Interesting photographs.
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I’m glad the video worked today, Arlene.
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That’s a great selection, Pete. The 19th century was a time of amazing innovation, and a photograph is always like a window into the past, now nearly 200 years since the earliest ones! Cheers, Jon.
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I wonder what those first photogrpahers would make of the digital advances now?
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I imagine that most of them would adapt very quickly, and really enjoy using them!
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These are cool. Thank heaven for photography. We have pictures of ancestors from the mid-1800s.
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Yes indeed. It gave us a window on the past. Just a shame the Romans didn’t invent cameras. 🙂
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It is a shame but we do have the mosaics.
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