First Image Ever Taken. The first photo ever posted on the internet which turns 20 years old july 18 fits nicely into that milieu of mediocrity but it s backstory is just a teeny bit more fabulous. The very first photograph ever taken.
The world s first photograph or at least the oldest surviving photo was taken by joseph nicéphore niépce in 1826 or 1827. The first photo ever posted on the internet which turns 20 years old july 18 fits nicely into that milieu of mediocrity but it s backstory is just a teeny bit more fabulous. The first photograph ever taken view from the window at le gras 1826 the first permanent photograph later accidentally destroyed was an image produced in 1822 by the french inventor joseph nicéphore niépce.
The photograph was taken from the upstair s windows of niépce s estate in.
Our first visually recorded images from 1839 in date order to 1845. What looks at first like a rudimentary charcoal sketch or some kind of strange rorschach test is actually one of history s most important images. The world s first photograph made in a camera was taken in 1826 by joseph nicéphore niépce. In 1839 american photographer robert cornelius took the first ever portrait photograph of a person.