The First Projected Image Was Through a Camera Obscura
Ibn Al Haytham - Arab scholar is generally credited for the invention of camera obscura
You Can Develop Your Negatives in Coffee or Beer
Potassium Chloride and Aluminum Made the First Flashes
The World’s Most Expensive Photograph The Rhein II Sold for $4.3 Million In 1999 by Andreas Gursky
Polaroid Produced the First Autofocus SLR Camera in 1979
The Oldest Surviving Image Is Almost 200 Years Old
The Cameras That Captured the Moon’s Surface Are Still There
The First Photography Paper Was Made Out of Asphalt
The largest photography competition is 353,768 entries.
The world’s largest photo album by dimensions was 13 ft 11.5 in x 17 ft.
The world’s largest photo mosaic featured 176,175 pictures.
The First Digital Camera was Invented in 1975
The First Color Photograph Was Taken in 1861 by Thomas Sutton
The world’s largest camera lens was a 5200mm lens attached to a canon.
The First Photo of a Person Was Accidental In 1828 by Louis Daguerre
" When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls"
Ted Grant
" Today, I am going to shoot someone and they will love me for it!"
Unknown
" A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know"
Diane Arbus
"Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow."
Imogen Cunningham
"The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation."
Susan Meiselas
"The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do."
Andy Warhol
"Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease."
Anonymous
"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."
Yousuf Karsh
"Life is like a camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don't work out, just take another shot."
Unknown
"I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are."
Ellen Von Unwerth
"What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce."
Karl Lagerfeld