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10 must-know facts about photography on ‘World Photography Day’

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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


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Daguerreotype camera built by La Maison Susse Frères in 1839

 

 


Daguerreotype, invented in 1837 by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was the first practical photographic process


Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

 

 


An earliest known permanent photographic image was made by heliography invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826


Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

 

 


The minimum exposure time required to create a photograph was approximately eight hours


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The first photograph – View from Niépce house window at Le Gras in 1826

 

 


With mobile phone cameras, over 350 billion photos are now taken globally every year


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Around 250 billion photographs have been uploaded on Facebook


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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert loved photographs and had a darkroom installed at Windsor Castle


Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
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
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


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The earliest known use of the abbreviation ‘photo’ was by Queen Victoria in a letter in 1860


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Queen Victoria

And, this is how photography was born.

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