“Unveiling the Past: 50 Breathtaking Vintage Photos That Will Leave You Spellbound!”
#2 A Danish Zookeeper Waters The Emperor Penguins On A Hot Summer Day In 1957
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#3 Man In Fog, London – 1935 Photo By Arthur Tanner
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The first ever photograph is known as ââWindow at Le Grasâ. It came to life in 1826, when a French inventor set up a camera obscura to capture the view outside his window. “Camera obscura” is a Latin phrase, which literally means dark room. The National Gallery Of Art defines camera obscura as “an optical device that creates an image by focusing rays of light onto a screen or sheet of paper”.
In essence, Nicéphore Niépce created the first camera that could properly capture an image and seal it in time. He had been playing around for a while. But at first, his images didn’t “stick”. In the early phases, he experimented with how a negative image could be created on paper coated with silver chloride. But those would always end up fading.
#4 Christmas In London – 1948
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#5 Passengers In Railway Station, Germany, 1940âs – By Paul Wolff
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#6 Ladies Sharing An Umbrella, London, 1959
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After much trial and error, and several later chemical explorations, he finally got it right. He discovered that a certain film mixed with pewter could produce permanent photographic images when exposed inside a camera obscura. Niépce called this process âheliographyâ.
