In his meticulous diary of the day it was taken - on a New York trip in August of 1843 - Adams gave as much attention to “a visit to the dwarf C.F. As the Atlantic reported, this is the oldest known photograph of a US president (the first is thought to be of William Henry Harrison, although it’s long lost). Just as soon as daguerreotypes made it over the Atlantic to the United States, some people were already so over them, or at least President John Quincy Adams didn’t think it was a big deal. Photograph of President John Quincy Adams from 1843 (via Smithsonian Institution) He sent copies of it off to his enemies, and while he may not be the celebrated pioneer that Daguerre is, at least he has this first photographic prank.
Here he is posed like a drowned man, and on the back he wrote a note asserting that it was his corpse and that the suicide was a direct cause of Daguerre and the Academy. Iconic Photographs has a good write-up of what went down, where Hippolyte Bayard, who had his own innovative ideas about the process of photography, staged a self-portrait of his fake suicide in response to a friend of Louis Daguerre’s convincing him to delay his announcement to the French Academy of Sciences, which of course propelled Daguerre and his daguerreotype to fame. Rosas/Flickr user)Īnd just as soon as people were able to take their own photographs, the use of it for staged hoaxes came about, appropriately in response to a scandal among the pioneers of photography. First Photograph of a Personįirst Hoax Photograph: Hippolyte Bayard, “Self Portrait as a Drowned Man” (1840) (via Juan Carlos M.
Below, we’ve compiled together some of these listed photographs, as well as some of our own additions, of photographic firsts from the beginnings of photography all to way to the newest landmarks in capturing visually things which were previously imperceptible to our human eyes. Over at is a list of some Earliest Surviving Photographs of Events and Things: Part I (we eagerly await Part 2), that’s accompanied by a video by YouTube user Chubachus. Back in 1963, it was acquired by the Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, and is generally heralded as the rising light of the dawn that signaled the photographic age. More accurately, it’s the first photograph from “nature” taken, as its creator Joseph Nicéphore Niépce had taken a photograph of an engraving in 1825 with heliography prior to this capture out his window in Burgundy, France in 1826 or 1827. It might look like an abstract field of faded hues, but this is the oldest photograph ever taken.
The first photograph ever by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1826 or 1827) (via University of Texas at Austin)
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