Ultimate World's Oldest Photographs, Part One: 1823 - 1839
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
- 45 of the earliest surviving photographs, all from the 1820s and 1830s, featuring many that are rarely seen. See the experimental work of Niepce, Daguerre, Talbot, Bayard, Florence, and others. View World's Oldest Photos, Part 2 : 1839 - 1841, to see the birth of photography spread thru Europe and America.
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
And here we are in 2023. Two hundred years later. Incredible to think it's been around that long.
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.
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!
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.
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."
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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.
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!
Love these images! Ghostly and romantic
It's like peering into the past through a mist. It feels very exciting each time they have a technical improvement.
Thanks for featuring the rarely seen ones
Merci, formidable et très émouvant de regarder ces photographies âgées de presque 200 ans, merveilleux
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
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!!
"Still life" and that from London in 1839 is amazing
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.
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
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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
there were many more early photographs that did not survive time.
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.
Thank you for sharing really amazing photos!
Daguerreotypes are amazing. I love the ones of Paris
Amazing and rarely seen photos.Thanks .
The photos in my old high school yearbook (Senior class of 1974) were of similar quality.
Thank you. This is great.
Great man Louis Daguerre was!
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"
And to think before then all we had were our eyes and minds to remember things.
So incredible!! Thank you!
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.
Qe fascinante!! Ojala pudieramos meternos en las fotos y ver del otro lado!!! Magia!!
For perspective- some of these were taken only about 50 years after the American Revolution.
Robert Cornelius looks like Adam Ant.
The Niepce table setting image is actually not as grainy.
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...
To think we has photos from when beethoven was alive is crazy
Lmaooo my first thought
Very historic photo👍🏻
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.
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...
imagine how old those books were at that time in the library!!! probably over 100 years old then!
Most of these are better quality than security camera vids on motels now days
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.
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.
No way that photo is 200 years old
What photo?
Excellent post. A little Debussy would have gone well along side 🎶
Dude, Napoleon Bonaparte died just 4-3 years before that first picture
Amazing although the early pictures look like the ones i made in high school com tech class.
That first one looks like some sort of view or building
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
wow!! incredible
Thank you.
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.
it's Joseph Nicephore NIEPCE ^^ ;-)
Frozen in time.
Time was forced to stand still.
way to fast in the pictures and way to slow in the caption, invert that and will be perfect
At 1:02 Jésus on photo, it's exceptionnal, very interresting ! 🤣
Those were the the most spectacular smudges I have ever seen 🤣🇺🇸
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.
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.
Fascinating.
Thnx!😊
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!
I think the photo From germany was a curch in munich (Bavaria south germany)
Yes, it is the „Frauenkirche“ - in München (Munich) Bayern/Bavaria
Many of the earliest ones look a lot like the photos of Bigfoot that people take today!
6:47 dá para ver o reflexo do fotógrafo ou é impressão minha?
The first pictures were of engravings? Isn't that like using VR to explore your own house?
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...
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
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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.
The true OG photos men so rare
Cathedrial?
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Tom Thumb a little guy 1844.
Nice .Can some email old pictures for me?it would wonderful
Pictures of pictures?
Wow
The first photo will be 200 next year as of writing this.
With all the ginormous buildings of Tartaria including star forts I'm pretty sure photography didn't start this way.
The men's haircut looked dapper
Euodia Percy dapper, like Dan?
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0:41 OK This Void meme is creepy af
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 😀
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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.
Those are the birth of photography.tiktok is the birth of what?
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
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.
If photography was invented in 1826, how can you have photographs from 1823?
Many experimenters were trying to invent photography years before 1826. Angelo Sala was the first to discover that paper would turn black in sunlight when wrapped around silver nitrate, in 1614. In 1727, Johann Schulze was the first to create an image on a prepared page from sunlight. Thomas Wedgewood took impractical photos as early as c. 1798. And Niepce himself began photo experiments in 1816 ... but until 1822, no one knew how to 'fix' the image to make it permanent. Sadly, Niepce's 1822 experiment is lost. The 1826 view from Le Gras is a milestone as the first successful fixed image from nature.
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound Thanks - that was hidden history to me - probably others too!
Slavery photos?
😮 Holy shit, this must be the oldest Photo. Jesus with Cross. 😆
6:22 *_eeeeeaaaaaghh_*
ferociousgumby He looks like a modern day rogue. Might need his elf ears surgically pinned back, though.
We are so intelligent, evolving tech in less than 200 yrs, controlling the planet, sadly in a bad way, pls save plant earth ;(
mustve been lots of invisible flying pyramids back then lol
ufos show up spectacularly in old photos
Why are you saying these are the oldest photographs when there are many from the late 1700's?
Sadly, the experiments of Thomas Wedgewood or Johann Schulze have not survived for us to see.
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound Like I said...There are several photo's on line from the 1700's.
@@zappachick228 There are many photos of people born in the 1700's. The earliest I know of is Caesar the slave, born in 1738 (he was photographed in 1851 at age 113). But all the photos of 18th century people were done in the 1840s or later, when they were elderly. The mystery of the "Wedgewood Leaf" photo was solved and found to date from circa 1839-1840.
@@zappachick228 ok I don't mean to call you stupid but... that isn't terribly smart. Those are photos that have people in them with attire of the 1700s, and of people born in the 1700s. They are not from the 1700s
@@atomlightstone What about the Italian women that says they're from the 1700's? And yes you can call me stupid if you want but not only the photo of the Italians but what about the slave and native photo's from the 1700's?
However, the oldest photo is not here....The Shroud Of Turin. That is a lot older.
To count the image as a photograph would be to suggest it is the work of an artist. But even today, no one really knows for certain how the image was made, or if the shroud is a forgery. As a devout Catholic, I will not make a judgement on the Shroud's authenticity, but prefer to view it as a mysterious relic that inspires awe and faith in believers.
Joe Orbin you are so correct. I should have realized that.
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound Also, a lot of scientific tests have only bolstered the confirmation that the Shroud is a forgery.