The Camera Obscura
World's first permanent photograph
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - 1826 - Gras, France
He called it: "View from the window"
and named it a: Heliograph
First photo of a person on a busy street in France
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Robert Cornelius - the first know selfie 1839 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre - self portrait
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Selfies are nothing new
You had to hold very still on early portraiture because of long exposure time for slow film plates and apparatuses to hold the subject steady for several minutes.
