Question regarding History of Photography

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Nahali - 29 Aug 2005 21:31 GMT

Hello. I am not sure if this is the right forum for this question,
but I think it is an interesting one.
I wonder who is the person with the earliest verified birthdate to be
photographed. I assume that the earliest person to be photographed
would have to be born in the 1740s because they would be around 100 in
the 1840s when photographs would have been more common. Anyone know?

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Melody - 30 Aug 2005 02:54 GMT

> Hello. I am not sure if this is the right forum for this question,
> but I think it is an interesting one.
> I wonder who is the person with the earliest verified birthdate to be
> photographed. I assume that the earliest person to be photographed
> would have to be born in the 1740s because they would be around 100 in
> the 1840s when photographs would have been more common. Anyone know?

I don't know the answer to your question but did read something interesting
along the same lines not too long ago. According to what I read the first
person to be photographed was a dead man. It took so long to expose an image
then that they couldn't get a living person to be still long enough.

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Hunt - 30 Aug 2005 04:55 GMT

> Hello. I am not sure if this is the right forum for this question,
>but I think it is an interesting one.
> I wonder who is the person with the earliest verified birthdate to be
>photographed. I assume that the earliest person to be photographed
>would have to be born in the 1740s because they would be around 100 in
>the 1840s when photographs would have been more common. Anyone know?

Interesting question. Maybe the answer would lie in Beaumont Newhall's "The
History of Photography," [Title?].

Hunt

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Nahali - 30 Aug 2005 22:34 GMT

I know I have seen photographs of revolutionary war veterans. They
would have to have been born around the 1750s or so.

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