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The Very First Photograph of all time

In 1827, it was Joseph Niepce who made the very first photograph with the likes of an obscura camera. Before this discovery, people generally used obscura cameras when viewing and drawing, not for photographs. Niepce's heliographics were given the name sun prints and they were a prototype for today's photograph. It was drawing with light.

Niepce did it by placing an engraving on a metallic plate which was covered with bitumen before exposing it to the light. All the white areas allowed the light to have a reaction to the chemicals on the metal plate, whereas the dark shadowy areas blocked the light. When the plate was placed in the solvent there was a visible image but gradually became invisible. The photograph was exposed to excessive light for 8 hours.

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amazing quotes.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it. - Emile Zola
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time. - Robert Doisneau
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. - Edward Weston
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer. - Alfred Eisenstaedt
Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase. - Percy W. Harris
A good photographer must love life more than he does photography. - Joel Strasser
If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. - Linda McCartney
Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. - David Alan Harvey
Of course it's all luck. - Henri Cartier-Bresson
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. - Andy Warhol
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. - Walter Sickert
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. - Edward Steichen
The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. - Ken Rockwell

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