While I rave and rant about film photography I have realized that many people may not now how film photography was created and how it has evolved, therefore I have put together this short and sweet history lesson about the first film photography ever used.
"Photography" is derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw"). The inventor of the very first process of photography was a man by the name of Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre who was born in France. Daguerre was a professional scene painter for the opera and began experimenting with the effects of light on translucent paintings in the 1820s. In 1829 took the first permanent photography in 1826. After several years of experimentation, Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography, naming it after himself -- the daguerreotype. The daguerreotype gained popularity quickly; by 1850, there were over seventy daguerreotype studios in New York City alone.
Obviously from here on out technology evolved rapidly into what we now know as film photography. The picture I have posted was the very first daguerrerotype ever taken in America.
Hope you ejoyed the lesson!
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