And…guess what, August 19 marks the ‘World Photography Day’, celebrating the passion for photography worldwide.
Here are the 10 must-know facts for you to know if you also love to take photographs.
On August 19, 1839, France bought patent for the daguerreotype and released it free to the world
Daguerreotype, invented in 1837 by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was the first practical photographic process
An earliest known permanent photographic image was made by heliography invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826
The minimum exposure time required to create a photograph was approximately eight hours
With mobile phone cameras, over 350 billion photos are now taken globally every year
Around 250 billion photographs have been uploaded on Facebook
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert loved photographs and had a darkroom installed at Windsor Castle
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
The first ever photo of the Moon was taken in 1851 and the first photo of its dark side was taken in 1959
One of the first pictures taken of the moon by Dr. J. W. Draper in 1840
Astronomer Sir John Herschel made the earliest known use of the word ‘photograph’ in 1839
The earliest known use of the abbreviation ‘photo’ was by Queen Victoria in a letter in 1860
Queen Victoria And, this is how photography was born.
