Manage updates with the Download AppPhotography may be older than you think
For years now, it generally has been accepted that the earliest known photographs made using easily repeatable techniques (photogenic drawings) were made about 1839. Some photographs had been made earlier, but they required extremely long exposures and were considered impractical. However, the world of photography might soon be turned on its head if a photogenic drawing that was recently removed from auction at Sotheby's turns out to have been made in 1802, as one photographic historian thinks it might.
David Schonauer, editor of American Photo magazine, has a detailed account of the story on the State of the Art … Read more
