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The very first photo of the moon, taken by John William Draper in 1839.
Draper immigrated to the United States from England and became a chemistry professor at NYU. This daguerreotype print was the first of a series of silver platinum plates he shot using a telescope. Draper was also the first person to shoot a portrait in America, a photograph of his sister Dorothy-Catherine . In 1864, he became chairman of the American Photographic Association.
Pair with Ordering the Heavens, a visual history of humanity’s quest to depict the cosmos before telescopes.
Date posted: 2013/05/28 01:05:34
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Tagged:
black and white 764
monochrome 740
space 126
astronomy 117
night sky 39
moon 38
celestial 21
lunar 6
craters 5
full moon 2