World's Oldest Photographs - Part 2

A collection of 85 more of the world's oldest photographs, taken between 1839 and 1844.
Corrections:
5:22 - Military Parade in front of the Old Academy and St. Michael's Church, Munich at Neuhauser St.
7:24 - Man identified as Rev. Reuben Nelson

[@MC-342]

I have some family pictures from 1880s but that's as far back as I have. This is really interesting. Thank you. 👍

[@nickcrompton3692]

Wow. Eerie, yet poignant. Brilliant stuff ~ thank you.

[@arago8649]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@leedsman54]

It’s amazing to think that some of these people were born in the 1700’s. We’re looking at their world, I wonder what they’d think if they could see ours!

[@heathert5455]

They would probably think that we were living in a bonafide Hell.

[@GrainMuncher]

Look up Conrad Heyer, he was born in the 1740s and fought in the US Revolutionary war. There is a photo of him from 1842 when he was over 100 years old Simply mind blowing

[@Chanticlair47]

I know I’m going to be regarded as a nutcase…but I am so here goes…..as a kid I watched Dark Shadows and in that show there was a seance by which a young governess was transported back in time to the year 1795. The acting and the costumes was so good and so authentic I feel as thought I actually spent that five months back in that era too. If anyone ever gets the opportunity to watch it, it’s really eerlily captivating and draws you right into that 18th century world.

[@ZombolicBand]

Its hard to comprehend how different the world was back then... we think or 1940s "old"... and this is what people in the 1940s would call "old".

[@clearlake3492]

Excellent.

[@bitshtannicajohnson6957]

Sadly I doubt 180 years from now anyone would look back at pictures taken today such as dogface snap chat, photoshop'd camel tow duckface and gaping but holes of random rap bimbos in the same awe & bewilderment as we look at these photos taken 180 years in the past.

[@dlighted1277]

Sad, isn't it? Also, with today's technology, we no longer capture images "naturally"; meaning, we used to snap photos and that was it. Next, you took them to get developed. Now, we keep erasing and retaking until we get the pic as close to our definition of near perfect, and the natural essence gets lost. Technology is both a plus and a minus.

[@Lardenoy]

La laideur des selfies, des gens envoyant la photo de la pizza qu'ils avalent ou du toutou adoré en train de faire pipi donnera une image limitée et bien matérialiste de notre époque mais la sensibilité des artistes, des poètes, des rêveurs est éternelle : vita brevis, ars longa !

[@carllawler2837]

A dream of mine is to have my photos looked at 100 years from now ...

[@jamesmihalcik1310]

Fantastic history ! Viewed from my moving pictures flat screen utilizing Wi-Fi internet, just amazing stuff. Such a rabbit hole to peer into with the fashion of clothing to the finger prints in the corners. My goodness, a seven minute exposure. It did reproduce the depth of the linen very well. Thanks for this!!

[@NeTxGrl]

it's amazing seeing photographs of people born in the 1700's. It brings them to life and it makes you realize is wasn't as long ago as it seems. Previous to photography we only had painted portraits and their written word. It felt more like a storybook than real life. Now if only we had voice recordings back this far.

[@feronia7]

Was gäbe ich für eine Zeitreise 😍 käme aber nicht mehr zurück.....

[@edwardanthony7283]

Pretty incredible nearly 180+ years later.

[@geoffwheadon2897]

Thank you, I will subscribe, another visual look into our history.

[@questfortruth665]

It's really hard to believe that these gorgeous, multi-storied, decorated buildings with domes on their tops were built BEFORE 1840 by means of horses and wagons, no electricity, no power tools and no motor vehicles!

[@PhilippeOrlando]

Yep, humans have been able to build amazing things for a long time; look at what the Romans built to carry water across country: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXfaZHmvn916odU

[@sugarnads]

The romans built domes that are still standing

[@f3tsch906]

Modern humans with electricity, power tools and motor vehicles: brutalism it is!

[@04straw]

Unbelievable that these have survived almost 200 years.

[@jennaolbermann7663]

These are incredible. Thank you for sharing these glimpses into a world that no longer exists.

[@arago8649]

Thanks for watching!

[@1956paterson]

I wonder how much our digital technology can restore or clear up these early photos. I saw the digital restoration of the oldest selfie portrait of Robert Cornelius 1839.

[@irisheyesofbelfast]

Many in Facebook groups do it all the time.

[@barrymoore4470]

Their wear and tear, so to speak, are part of their charm today, and add historical value to these pioneering artifacts.

[@Annie1962]

great pictures though the timing in this video is inconsistent. You have put up a title and not given us anywhere near enough time to read it, put up a pic (Mozart's supposed wife) and leave it up for such a short time that we don't really get to see it. I have had to put the pause button on a bit and have had to do a little rewind on occasion too

[@Lardenoy]

Exact ! Merci en tous cas pour ces clichés, inédits pour moi ! "La photographie est une image de la mort en marche" a écrit quelqu'un.. Mais paradoxalement, des images émouvantes et troublantes de la VIE de ces personnes qui avaient nos défauts, nos enthousiasmes, nos rêves, nos qualités et nos limites...

[@dguy0386]

truly incredible! 5:18 could have been taken today!

[@itachi-kun7736]

Imagine If Napoleon lived even at 80, we would have his real image looks like

[@cherylpurdue888]

These pictures are amazing for there age 🙂

[@ninja1676]

I find it pretty amazing that even if the camera took forever to capture a single picture, the fact that people didn't have to sketch or paint anymore is revolutionary even to today's eyes.

[@TheStockwell]

In the 1830s, Wm. Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the negative-positive process, became interested in ways of capturing images because he couldn't draw to save his life.

[@barrymoore4470]

@@TheStockwell Right, and the reproduction of graphic art was also an impetus behind the experiments of photographic pioneer Nicéphore Niépce (the first known person to successfully capture an image from a camera obscura), which explains why most of his surviving works are duplications of prints and engravings. On the other hand, Daguerre of daguerreotype fame actually was a commercially successful artist. Early photography of course did not kill off painting. For most of the remaining nineteenth century, there was no viable means to photographically reproduce the colors of nature, a desire that continued to be met through painting's simulation thereof, and the small scale of photographs also could not mimic the grand canvases that painters continued to produce.

[@robnewman6101]

Wow.

[@robnewman6101]

Robert Peel (1788-1850) the founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force Service at Scotland Yard in 1829.

[@Laura-fw1jo]

Would love another video of cameras and processes used to create these WONDERFUl early photographs !

[@thomasjohn5037]

2:52 this guy was the same age as Beethoven.

[@barrymoore4470]

Beethoven died the very year (1827) that the earliest surviving photographic image (that is, an image caught with a camera obscura) was probably created (the image was created no later than 1827, though some sources also give 1826 as the possible year).

[@weilandiv8310]

They had one of me in junior high school!

[@karenlacy8950]

Great!

[@mercure37]

cool stuff,thk

[@westcarter3862]

.. Precious Priceless Time Bound Still Treasures'.. Contrast Modernity'.. Bless us' Refresh us'.. Briceness Chime Sound Thrill Pleasures'.. Past Eternity !! 👉⏳🔔⏳👈

[@davidwood9966]

Smiling wasn't invented until much later.

[@normanhowell3994]

You forgot to put the very first photo ever on here... (The blurry scene of the rooftops.)

[@arago8649]

I featured it in part 1

[@sheilabarron5532]

Love this✌❤

[@angelaangela6875]

About 1/3 way in...looks like fingerprints on upper right corner...imo

[@Alice-ov3rd]

I wonder if some of the buildings that were taken in that time are still around. That would be cool to see how much or how little they’ve changed.

[@barrymoore4470]

Certainly, many of the famous monuments of Paris depicted in those early daguerreotypes still stand, and Lacock Abbey, the home of William Henry Fox Talbot, who pioneered the calotype process (the basis for most subsequent photography), still exists and is today a museum. And these are but a few examples.

[@motivationinspiration-wu7sw]

The photo at 4:58, how old is the old man and woman? Because I'm sure they would have been some of the oldest people, ever photographed at the time.

[@arago8649]

The man is Max Keller (1770 - 1855), photographed around his 70th birthday. The woman is his wife, Josefa, whose age I cannot find.

[@robnewman6101]

City of London Police 1839.

[@user-xw4in7kq6v]

Just imagine how amazing it is that these people cod have seen Napoleoan Bonaparte

[@Annie1962]

is your B button missing? Napoleon Bonaparte is how you spelt his name

[@Alice-ov3rd]

Agree!

[@barrymoore4470]

There are actually surviving photographs of at least two people who personally knew Napoleon: his second wife Marie-Louise of Austria and his youngest brother Jerome, the erstwhile King of Westphalia.

[@francoisdubroeucq387]

Dommage que les photos défilent trop rapidement

[@arago8649]

Vous pouvez mettre en pause ou modifier la vitesse de la vidéo

[@francoisdubroeucq387]

@@arago8649 ah oui... merci !