The oldest photo taken in the USA, in Philadelphia, by Joseph Saxton in 1839The first color landscape to show the world in color was made in 1877. The photographer, Louis Ducos du Hauron Arthur, was a pioneer in color photography and was the brains behind the process that created this photo. The shot shows the south of France and is aptly titled “Landscape of Southern France”.The first photograph of the moon was taken by John W. Draper on March 26, 1840. The photograph was taken from a Daguerreotype at the observatory at New York University. The image then acquired a significant amount of physical damage.The first photograph in which a human being appeared was in a snapshot captured by Louis Daguerre. The exhibition lasted around seven minutes and aimed to capture Boulevard du Temple, a street in Paris, France. In the lower left corner of the photograph, we can see a man standing having his shoes polished. He stood there long enough to take the long exposure photo.The first self-portrait. Before 'sefies' flooded social media, Robert Cornellus, in 1839 set up a camera and stood in the foreground to take the world's first self-portrait. This happened in City Center, Philadelphia (USA). Cornelius sat in front of the lens for just over a minute, before leaving the seat and covering the lens.
