Nicéphore Niépce’s [1826]
This is perhaps the world oldest photograph. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s is noted arguably as the world's photography pioneer. He used to call his technique heliography and used prolonged exposure of 8-20 hours on. He improved the technique with Louis Daguerre. Daguerre used silver bromide plates and his pictures were called Daugerrotypes, I still have one of his shots of a nude lady somewhere in my books at Bhilai.
In this particular picture Joseph exposed the shot between sunrise and sunset, hence there is light on both sides of the building. This technique, due to the long exposure times was not good for photographing people.
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Charles O'Rear [2000]
This is perhaps the most widely seen picture among computer users around the world. This image titled "Bliss", appears as the standard wallpaper in Windows XP. This is a landscape from Napa Valley, California. O'Rear has worked for National Geographic for over 25 years, this one was however taken for a different company. He lives at St. Helena in Napa County. This image inspired Microsoft to start a $200 million ad campaign called, Yes You Can.
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Yasushi Nagao [1960]
This was the assassination of Japanese Socialist Inejiro Asanuma by Otoya Yamaguchi, a japanese ultranationalist student. Photographer Yasushi Nagao won the pulitzer and the world photo awards that year. Just 3 weeks later, in his cell, Otoya mixed a small amount of tooth powder with water and wrote on the wall - Seven lives for my country. Ten thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!..before hanging himself and committing suicide - an act of Owabi.
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