The worlds first ever photograph

[LouiseTopp]

I always thought the first one was taken at Laycock Abbey in Wiltshire by William Henry Fox Talbot. It shows a window in 1835. I could be wrong. Have found this website and I am a little confused by it.

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/

Supposed to have been taken in 1826.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography is very fascinating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_Talbot

 

[artyman]

I don't think it was the first photograph, but the first to use a negative.

 

[Graham00]

The worlds first was taken by a Frenchman in 1826....i heard it on Steve Wright in the afternoon factoid session today lol.

 

[HoppyUK]

First define 'photograph'.

Niepce is generally credited with the first photograph in 1826, defined as a permanent record. It was 'fixing' the image that was the major problem. The camera obscura had been creating images for ages, and contact prints of leaves and such had been made photographically, but faded quite soon.

Then Fox Talbot is credited as the inventor of modern photography in 1834, because he produced a negative that could be reproduced (printed). Around the same time, Daguerre was producing much better quality Daguerreotypes but they were hard to view and one-offs.

Any one of those three has a good claim. A bit like the inventor of digital has a few key names.

 

[Byker28i]

Any one of those three has a good claim. A bit like the inventor of digital has a few key names.

Go on then. I always thought it was Steven Sasson and Kodak.

 

[LouiseTopp]

Go on then. I always thought it was Steven Sasson and Kodak.

Who did invent digital?

 

[HoppyUK]

Who did invent digital?

I think it was invented by a department Steven Sasson usually gets the vote, and TBH I've not really looked into it so no reason to quibble at all, but he certainly wasn't a lone inventor like those old guys. And it's been an industry wide development process that has brought us to where we are now with high quality and low cost.

Lots of names and companies crop up before him, with video (magnetic tape) and CCD derivatives that were recording images electronically.

If credit goes to Sasson and Kodak, it's ironic that of all the big names to benefit commercially from digital, Kodak comes pretty much last and is currently struggling for survival - the company that not long ago absolutely ruled the photographic industry.

 

[Chappers]

I believe the first photograph as we know it was produced by Neipce, at Chalon sur Sonne in France. There is even a small museum there commemorating his discovery. Neipce , if memory serves me, than went onto collaborate with Daguerre who invented the Daguerreotype process. Both Neipce and Daguerre systems were simply one off systems . If you wanted a second image you had to re photograph the subject. It was Fox Talbot who developed the Negative/ Positive process that was the mainstay of Photography for some 125 years until the introduction of of digital.

 

[Byker28i]

It's really worth a trip to Lacock to see the Fox Talbot museum - very interesting
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-lacockabbeyvillage.htm

 

[facebook]

"Neipce"One of those names i always remembered being told when i was about 9. Was it Joesph Neipce, but now im thinking it was Fox Talbot who should get the credit

 

[joxby]

needs layer masking, and why he didn't HDR it, I've no idea

 

[MartynK]

What about the Turin Shroud and Leonardo da Vinci? There's a reasonably plausible argument that it's a camera obscura image, that was chemically fixed.