Biographies

📌 World's first photograph (1826)

French inventor and pioneer of photography who created the world's oldest surviving photograph using heliography. Also co-invented the Pyréolophore, one of the world's first inter…

📌 Daguerreotype process (1839)

French artist, scientist and photographer who invented the daguerreotype — the first publicly available photographic process, announced to the world on 19 August 1839.

📌 First photographic portrait in the USA (1839)

American photographer and pioneer who took the first known photographic portrait of a person in the United States — a daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839.

📌 First permanent colour photograph (1861)

Scottish physicist who demonstrated the first permanent colour photograph in 1861 using three-colour separation — a principle that remains the basis of all colour photography.

📌 First aerial photograph (1858)

French photographer, caricaturist and balloonist who became the first person to take aerial photographs in 1858, shooting Paris from a hot air balloon.