photography

first permanent photo

Dec 27, 1826

first colour photo of a person

Sep 9, 1839

first birds eye view photo

Sep 9, 1858

Felix Tournachon, better known by the nom de plume Nadar, combines his interests— aeronautics, journalism, and photography— and becomes the first to capture an aerial photograph in a tethered balloon over Paris in 1858.

first colour photo

Sep 9, 1861

first action photo

Sep 9, 1878

first underwater colour photo

Sep 9, 1926

first colour photos from space

Sep 16, 1946

first survey of the night sky

Sep 16, 1949

first colour magazine

Sep 16, 1962