Category Archives: Historical perspectives

“The first light-picture ever taken. 1839”

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Brij

“The first light-picture ever taken. 1839” Robert Cornelius wrote this short but evocative inscription on the back of his own self-portrait.  This self-portrait is the first photographic image of human ever produced. The quarter plate daguerreotype was taken at the … Continue reading →

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The People of India : A series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Brij

Albumen prints from late 19th Century. (Printing process attributed to Louis-Desire Blanquart-Evrard, was the first commercially viable process of creating photographic print on paper from a negative) Between 1868 and 1875, the India Office published in eight volumes with 468 … Continue reading →

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