The World’s Oldest Photograph

historical-nonfiction:

It was long thought that the world’s oldest photograph was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Nipce, a French inventor with the nickname “The Father of Photography.” His first photograph is a blurry eight-hour exposure of a building in the French city of Le Gras. But in 2002, and even earlier photograph turned up. Who took it? Why, Nipce in 1825.

The oldest photograph in the world is a photograph of an engraving! A picture of a picture. The Flemish engraving, from the 1600s, shows a man leading a horse.

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