Top 11 Photos That Were Historical Firsts

1. The First Photograph Ever

The first photograph ever was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1827, representing the garden of his house in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. He called his first image a heliograph, which means “writing with the sun”, due to the method he used to take the picture.

He placed his camera obscura in front of a window and he used the light to transcript the image on a piece of metal. If you take a look at the original photo, it will be pretty hard to understand it because the metal is shiny. But later, when the picture was discovered and even used in press articles, it was reproduced, emphasizing the contrast between the white and the black areas.