The Oldest Portrait Photographs - Part 1

this video has become outdated, see updated list of first portrait photographs: https://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/2_The_Hu... Most of the oldest surviving portrait photographs, taken in the 1830s. The first photograph of a human face was likely taken by Louis Daguerre, as he experimented with taking portraits as early as 1837. On the 19th of August 1839 Louis Daguerre published the details of his photography process, called the daguerreotype. Shortly after, both Europeans and Americans began experimenting with portraiture. In America, the first photo studio would be opened by Wolcott & Johnson on March 4, 1840. In Europe, however, it would not be until 1841 that the first commercial photography studios opened. Unfortunately, little of these pre-1840 portraits are known to have survived. Thanks to Mr. McManus for kindly allowing me to show all Draper/Morse photos. His essay about Draper's early portrait attempts & more can be read here: http://www.historybroker.com/light/we... Part 2:    • The Oldest Portrait Photographs - Part 2   Part 3:    • The Oldest Portrait Photographs - Part 3   Notes: 2:04 Henry Fitz's self-portrait was probably made in January 1840. 2:15 Identifications: Back Row: Unknown, Count Séraincourt, Antonin Chotek, Karel Chotek, Emanuel Chotek. Front Row: Unknown, Unknown, Count Séraincourt's wife, Maria Sophia Berchtold (Wife of Karel Chotek) Sitting, Front: Bohuslav Chotek (father of Sophie of Hohenberg) Sources: Daguerre, M. Huet, c. 1837: https://journals.openedition.org/etud... Hippolyte Bayard, Self-portraits, c. Summer 1839: http://histoirevisuelle.fr/cv/icones/... J. W. Draper, Portrait, c. late Sept. 1839: http://www.historybroker.com/light/we... J. W. Draper, T. Frelinghuysen, c. Fall 1839: http://www.historybroker.com/light/we... S. F. B. Morse (?), Portrait of J. W. Draper, c. Fall 1839: http://www.historybroker.com/light/we... J. W. Draper, Possible Portrait of S. F. B. Morse, c. Fall 1839: http://www.historybroker.com/light/we... Morse Portrait Engravings: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i... M. A. Root, The Camera and the Pencil (1864), p. 347 Robert Cornelius, Self-portrait, Oct/Nov. 1839: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/200... Robert Cornelius: Portraits From the Dawn of Photography http://www.daguerreotypearchive.org/t... R. Cornelius, Family Group, c. Oct/Nov. 1839: Robert Cornelius: Portraits From the Dawn of Photography W. R. Johnson, E. O. Kendall, Oct/Nov. 1839: https://librarycompany.org/catchingas... Unknown, Count Chotek with Family & Friends, c. Nov 4. 1839: http://www.scheufler.cz/cs-CZ/fotohis... Draper, Group Portrait, c. Dec. 1839: http://www.historybroker.com/light/we... R. Cornelius, P. B. Goddard, c. Dec. 1839: http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/imag... R. Cornelius, P. B. Goddard, c. Dec., 1839: American Journal of Photography, July 1893 Robert Cornelius: Portraits From the Dawn of Photography Tags: 1838, boulevard du temple, Robert Cornelius, Louis Daguerre, daguerreotype, Henry Fitz, first photograph of a human, Draper, Frelinghuysen, 1839, Samuel Morse, historical photograph, history, worlds oldest photographs, first photo, first photo ever taken, first selfie, first portrait photo, oldest photograph of a human being, earliest surviving photo, oldest photo of a person