Oldest photographs in the world

[shadesboy9]

The second picture is kinds creepy lol

[azitaulava]

nostalgic



[11cjg]

at 2:21 it looks like theres a face in the background

[StripCell]

lol i wonder if ppl in the future will look at all the 'duck faces' this generation has been producing xD

[FastoJetso]

1826.... a year before the great Beethoven died.

[Wassouf10]

fascinating

[OptimalElement]

We hear much of historic events depicted in writing and in paintings. But it is not like seeing actual photograph. Imagine a photograph from the crusades xD

[pe6obutilkata]

0:55 Robert de Niro ???

[TheSirhclee]

1858 how the hell are you going to manage an arial photo?

[JDubzzz420]

@TheSirhclee hot air balloon!

[xDONTxTREADxONxMEx]

That first picture from 1826 is higher quality than my cell phone camera.

[ICantBeFaged]

wow, the first woman to be photgraghed was over 200 years ago

[brotherscro]

How the hell did they manage to do an aerial photo in 1858 just amazing

Briliant video

[JumpinJackProduction]

@brotherscro - "It is... BALLOON!"

[ICantBeFaged]

whats a daguerreotype?

[hilbert2547]

@ICantBeFaged old photography method

[ICantBeFaged]

@hilbert2547 thanks

[bglasier]

17 people dislike photos? What is wrong people?

[FaggotStrike502]

That Paris photograph in 1838 was taken by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre The image shows a street, but because of the over ten minute exposure time the moving traffic does not appear. The exceptions are the man and shoe-shine boy at the bottom left, and two people sitting at a table nearby who stood still long enough to have their images captured. And was taken in Boulevard du Temple.

[xander7ful]

That color photo is very impressive.

[Emppusii]

what is that first picture ? i can't see,,,

[Nancy99999]

Wow, the 1746 one!!

[aLinuxTV]

The first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography was built by Johann Zahn in 1685 - so why don't we have a photo form 1685, there has to be some?

[Izkzmach]

Hold on...why it took years before a photo could capture a photograph of human??

[hilbert2547]

@Izkzmach this is very easy because you had to stand still for a while. The exposure time was very long.

[HFburn]

The 3rd one looks like a drawing...

[VRIESSS]

I'm not gay but i must admit that Robert Cornelius was pretty handsome.

[2tur]

@VRIESSS Hah- I believe the same. :). He's actually my favorite historic figure. :)

[OptimalElement]

@VRIESSS

shush, don't get westboro baptist church here

[john45544]

There's something freak about the photograph at 0:22.

[MJ4everTheKing]

@john45544 its like their are heads of children in bascets :SS

[WATKINSBOB1]

HOW ABOUT A 6TH STORY BALCONY FOR "OVERHEAD"PHOTO...PARIS..

[Moonshinedistiller]

Was this filmed on a potato?

[Uzzie101]

@Moonshinedistiller Don't be silly.

[notBMW18]

I'd like to know what city that was in the 1858 aerial photo. By the looks of the streets I'm assuming its European. (It could be Asian or South American as well.. but probably European). (:

[bedtime420]

Now this is what real music sounds like. 

[xZippy38]

Even back then, I still looked good in my photo.

[ImHereForMJ]

Very educational. I appreciate good music & historical photos all at the same time.

[flyingyellowcows]

mmmkay,what's in the first photograph? i can't tell

[DAVELIGHT11]

Scary.

[elcondepatula]

what is the song?! i HAVE TO KNOW!!

[elainesteve]

@elcondepatula song is Beethoven`s moonlight sonata

[DjrickandDjmike]

@elainesteve Sorry man, actually its Fur Elise.

[DjrickandDjmike]

@elcondepatula Fur Elise, by Beethoven.

[tauheke]

1826 eh?

Mozarts sister Maria Anna passed away three years later in 1829, James Cooks widow 9 years after the first photograph in 1835, Napoleon died just 2 years before.

Shame a photo of these people doesn''t exist... oh well.

[jazzysnaps]

Really the most fantastic invention of all time, taken for granted now , every frame i do i still look in amazement .

Thanks for posting.

[dannytonks09]

@jazzysnaps i completely understand what you mean, the digital agem will never live up to the manual age in my opinion :/

[MrTwentycent90]

napoleon 1769-1821 ... first photo 1826 ... great deception

[rtuckerivey]

Sweet.

[deepikabhavana]

the woman is so old....like my granny!...

[deepikabhavana]

the first photograph took 8 hours....so long i would fall asleep!...

[deepikabhavana]

the first photograph took 8 hours

[deepikabhavana]

the first photograph took 8 hours............

[multiyapples]

think now adays you can take photos in seconds but back then it must of taken hours just to make 1 photo

[Ipodtouch95100]

How the hell did they get an overhead photo in 1858????

[hilbert2547]

@Ipodtouch95100 air baloon

[willclakify]

@hilbert2547 Is this a Beethoven Symphony?

[hilbert2547]

@willclakify not a symphony just a piece of music. "Beethoven für Elise"

[jackalan88]

the photo of the first woman looked really ahead of its time. I would've guessed that was taken during the 1920s if it wasn't for this video. Amazing.

[Misel982001]

Amazing video....trully amazing....

[ICantBeFaged]

what exactly is the worlds oldest photgraph

[ICantBeFaged]

was it first human to be photgraghed

[robert1981]

So what was the first digital picture in the world????

[luckysod04]

@robert1981 prolly the early to mid-90's, and it was probably of something classified

[robert1981]

How come in the worlds first known color photograph there is a digital print in the bottom left hand corner like if it was a new age picture??? Sorry I don't know what minute it was because I'm writing comment from my iPhone...

[KhalilRahman16]

@robert1981 on 1:57?

[deepikabhavana]

@KhalilRahman16 the world's oldest photograph is------in 1826.....it was taken in FRANCE. Nièpce took the photograph from the upper-storey of his estate Le Gras in the village of St.-Loup-des-Varennes in Burgundy.

[BlogsbytheDay]

song?

[1909Titanic1912]

can anyone tell me what a daguerreotype is....... please

[tanrat7]

@1909Titanic1912 I think its a type of earliest photography which was done on metal.

[wewillbugyou]

Very interesting

[declandowney]

conrad heyer was a revolutionary war vet

[ellitestar]

World's first recording band "The Rolling Stones" who started back in 1604

[RobertNicholls]

Photography is one of humans greatest inventions.

[Skoolkidsproduction]

how about that baby thing at 0:21

[thepinballcentral]

what is the song?

[chandin69]

@thepinballcentral fur elise by beethoven

[xylfox]

Which town was the 1858-aerial photo?

[xylfox]

We could have photos of Napoleon if he wasnt poisoned.

[xylfox]

We could nearly have had Photos of Goethe and Beethoven if they lived a few years longer.

[crunchnut21]

the guy at 1:36 is a creep

[Steerpike07]

Hannah Gorby might just be able to remember chatting as a child with someone born in 1650 reminiscing about when they were a child when Oliver Cromwell turned down the title of king (1657), or the restoration of the Religious Toleration Act in Maryland (1658) or Huygens inventing the pendulum clock (1657) or Rhode Island becoming a haven for dissenting Puritans and being the third colony to defy the British ban on trade with the Dutch (May 1657)!!!

[PhillyDippy5]

@Steerpike07 Hannah Stilley Gorby was born in 1746, not in 1646, so, she was 25 years old when the american revolution, but forget that about Cromwell, that was 1 century before.

[Steerpike07]

Hannah Gorby is even on Facebook! She has 580 friends and went to Belding High School!! Maybe someone should tell her she's on YouTube as well.

[royalsteven]

Thanks to that first photograph I have my work. But actually the first black and white photograph is created by Nicephore, the first color photograph by James Clerk.

[VivienForum]

some of these pictures are like drawings, i know they are pictures taken long time ago but it seems the people in the pic like the one at 0:30 the people and treers looks like drawings :/

[royalsteven]

Yes you simply can not re-create them with today's photo effects.

[streetvan1997]

If u think that woman is beautiful I would hate to see what u think is ugly

[PorscheMaster911]

The beautiful woman that was first photograph in 1839 at 1.05 is still her at my house mortifying the hell out of me!! Her name is Mary Ann

[rollingstopp]

the man who was the first photographer went blind // to much exposure to gun powder flash--true fact

[appleintosh]

at 1:50 look up at the top right corner and it looks like someone making out with one of santas elves

[RafaelD1994]

@appleintosh what, LOL?

[appleintosh]

@RafaelD1994 look at the picture. it looks like that

[RafaelD1994]

@appleintosh sorry man can't see it xD

[SpiderXxPirate]

Wow. A photo of someone born 265 years ago. Trippy. o_o

[phillproductions2]

WOW! :O 1:57 was that really taken in 1872?

[P3T3RJAY]

i love how its first human then first woman

[peterp21]

@P3T3RJAY Of course, people with functioning brains understand the context of pointing out the first photograph of a human, and later the first photograph of a woman. I'm not seeing the sexism here.

[MusicRelatedCandy]

@P3T3RJAY Well it wouldn't make any sense the other way around would it?

[BreakdownDrop]

@P3T3RJAY So? he was the first of man and women. All humans. then im sure many men were taken pictures of. Then SHE was.

[TheHaron68]

They had colour photographs in 1872 what in the sh#*@ !!!!

[MrTinago]

THANK YOU FOR UP LORD THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!!!

[richandrenee]

You can tell they are old cause the smile and click technique obviously came later.

[mildredwinter]

robert cornelius is handsome

[jai65]

Lol i definately starting singing Tencious D-classico when i heard the piano

[tdotmostwanted]

1:10 the lady looks like the old woman from DRAG ME TO HELL haha

[Wolfmoss1]

I would have taken a photo of something much cooler if I was taking the first photo in human history.

[AmazingItalianGirl]

whats the pic supposed to be in 1826?

[6dragonslayer6]

@AmazingItalianGirl

it was taken by niepce, it was a view form his department throught the window , exposure was 8 hrs :)

[AmazingItalianGirl]

@6dragonslayer6 oh thnx

[KloudyPK]

WHATS THE SONG´S NAME?

[DetroitLove4U]

It's quite a spectacle to see this video it truly was an entertaining lesson. As a numismatist, although paper money wasn't even around by the point some of these first pictures were taken, many coins like the photographs are worth so many words that echo time and history long since past but never forgotten. Unfortunately I feel the entertainment world now is s full of confounding non sense but in all honesty I don't think many actors throughout time have had a straightforward life.

[ultradumbass]

how ironic it is that not even the youngest person alive at the time would be alive even for the 1893 aerial photo. only 4 people are confirmed to still be alive before 1900 and the oldest was born in the summer of 1896.

[gastro137]

old skoool

[kfk3000]

1826! That's older than i thought. Great video.

[225callofduty]

Soooo old

[philipbm99]

2:18 look in the top right and you will see an eye

[tylerratooo123]

what "song" is this?

[v4pehqec]

@tylerratooo123 Fur Elise by Beethoven.

[MyTwoCentsAreFree]

2:18 the first underwater photo is kinda creepy.

[MyTwoCentsAreFree]

1:57 amazes me. A color photo from 1872, now that's what I call awesome.

[MrBlRD]

Samuel Hahnemann

1755 - 1843

Oh my god, the 1700, it was so close to the middle ages 0_o

[zoics1]

Were these pics taken using an iPhone???

JUST KIDDING!!!!!!

[normandyangel]

wow..im on spring break and im learning something..pat on back..thanks youtube

[LMGgaming]

A colour photo from 1874......

[nissimang14]

why did sally sell the seashells in the seashore when you couldn't just pick the in the beach?? LOL

Like if you get it

[appleintosh]

0:09 thats not a picture. thats justin bieber

[captainofthetitanic]

what was the first one?

[SarahDasSchaf]

wooow, but scary

[LaurelVentura]

A photo of someone born in 1746. Wow.

[Gamebox27]

I prefer paintings for old periods. The photos just don't seem to catch the spirit of the time as much as a well-done photo-realistic color painting of a famous person or scene. I also prefer movies where modern actors try to recreate the feel of a living, moving past. To me, early photos are more to verify that these times actually existed as they were recorded. I do like the pre-Soviet color photos of Russia in the early 1900s. The quality of those is amazing.

[djtimtam]

i dunno why nut old pictures scare me

[Philly2002]

no homo... but Robert Cornelius looks good looking. Who says people back then were always 'black and white' ugly?

[manz92]

@Philly2002 i was thinking the same thing, he had good hair lol.

[zof31091]

thinking that those people lived when Mozart was still alive, during the french revolution, before the invention of the steam engine... it's so suggestive

[VaniaCasacaRoja2009]

1:47 which city is it?

[voodoowop45s]

so amazing!!!

[crazeerenegade]

Interesting video...

[BJrockk]

1:06 that's a fuckin man :))

[aymirala]

You know, Robert Cornelius is actually kind of good looking. Even though he's long, long dead by now...

[manz92]

@aymirala wow...exactly what i was thinking, you rekon people got uglier over time lol

[aymirala]

These kinds of records, these people who make me who I am, who make us who we are...these people are where we come from...it sends shivers down my spine that I can stare into their eyes.

[aymirala]

@BIOHAZARDSoundtracks Air balloons! :D

[subkontrabasklarinet]

Hannah Stilley Gorby, born 1746... The woman whose authentic picture we can see and who could have met Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Charles Louis Montesquieu, Samuel Richardson, Empress Maria Theresia, King George II and many others... Incredible.

[cywyhot]

@subkontrabasklarinet Hannah Stilley Gorby, born 1746... The woman whose authentic picture we can see and who could have met Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Charles Louis Montesquieu, Samuel Richardson, Empress Maria Theresia, King George II and many others... Incredible.

But like most of us, she very likely led an ordinary life with her friends and family. I could have met Tom Cruise or George Clooney or a President or two but somehow that has yet to happen.... :)

[NESHero]

@BIOHAZARDSoundtracks Hot Air Balloon i think .

[sweet58441]

its amazing that people lived past 100 back then

[guitarwaysted]

Does anybody know if Robert Cornelius (first picture from a known human being) came from the Netherlands? Cause his name sounds dutch,just wondering,

[GenesisTree]

I find it AMAZING that we have a picture of a woman who was born in 1746.

Think about it. She was about 30 years old when the declaration of independence was signed. When President Washington passed away she was about 53!

Oh how I wish there were photographs of the founding fathers. That would be so clutch.

[lastman4u]

song?

[RisingAtheists]

@lastman4u how-can-you-not-know-that?!?!?­!?!

[lastman4u]

@lastman4u Im sorry I grew up in the 2000's we have no idea what true art is

[xSimplyAmusedx]

No matter how rich, successful, famous some of us are we all gonna lay in casket in the end!

[djbaisy]

how could they take that airial picture if there wheren't planes :~`(

[hilbert2547]

@djbaisy air baloon!

[worldbestpilot]

@hilbert2547

Correct - ballons !

[mirshaani]

@hilbert2547 

[mirshaani]

@hilbert2547 wats this song called??

[BobDylanMorgan]

@djbaisy taller building



[chanctonbury63]

@djbaisy They threw the camera up in the air...

[borgduck]

@djbaisy TARDIS.

[northernfog69]

@djbaisy DUH !!! 

[bridgeman031]

@djbaisy  easy the government was like 500 years a head of them :D satalite photos :o

[richandrenee]

@djbaisy airship.

[Ryan12England]

2:20 looks like a giant face in the background

[MsSprinkles7]

those r drawings ur not fooling anyone

[ricardesco93]

nice , im happy was born in the early 90's cuz i get to taste the 1k's also happy that im livng in this era , technollogy has had big advance etc but i wish i had lived in that era man those people made the world what it was and it was the best time probably not financialy but it was just more natural etc

[mysktrackback]

oldest photograph with oldest people :)

[AugustusAurelianus1]

@fabianoasc - Thank you so much for this "pearl" of a video! Too bad my computer could not display NYC in 1901 & 1896 - the screen was black (just displaying the notations. It is amazing this "snapshot" of human ingenuity in the most important of all centuries (the 19th)

[Dirtfire]

@AugustusAurelianus1 your computer can display it, though. You just have to click on the notations themselves to see them.

Cool stuff.

[TechXmage]

And where is first photo of UFO ?! :D

[tjransley]

how did they get the ariel photo when planes werent invented yet?

[BRC98]

@tjransley

Hot Air Ballons invented in Late 1700s.