The first 11 photos in the world

The first photo in the world was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in the Burgundy region of France. Images are taken with a combination of asphalt covering a piece of glass or metal, a process called heliography.

The first color photograph in the world was taken in 1861 by mathematician James Clerk Maxwell.

The world's first digital photo was taken in 1957 by Russell Kirsch taking his son with a resolution of only 176 x 176 pixels.

The world's first portrait was taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839. Cornelius prepared the camera and then clicked it himself and sat in front of the camera for almost 1 minute at a location on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, USA.

The first aerial photo taken from a hot air balloon by photographer James Wallace Black made from an altitude of over 600 meters. The photo took the town of Boston in the USA.

The first solar image was taken on April 2, 1845, by two French physicists, Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault, through a process called Daguerreotype at a speed of 1/60 second.

Photo taken to convey the world's first news depicting a man arrested in France taken in 1847.

The first photograph of the US president was taken in 1843. The picture of John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States.

The first lightning photograph was taken by photographer William Jennings in 1882.

The world's first disaster photograph, taken in 1908, shows the crashed Aviator Thomas Selfridge plane.

The first color photograph of the landscape of southern France was taken in 1877 by photographer Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron.