Did you know that the oldest photograph in the history of photography was made back in 1826 - or 1827? Its creator is Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, who captured the scene outside his window in Burgundy, France. Before that, in 1825, the French inventor took an image of an engraving using the process of heliography, but window view is considered the oldest photograph that is known to have been formed in the camera in the world. The photo was acquired by the Ransom Center at the University of Texas back in 1963, where it is still permanently exhibited, and it represents the beginning of the photographic era in time.

Although photography had quite a revolution which started about a hundred years after the oldest photograph was created, it is important to remember the first photographs ever of people, news, cities, situations, the street, events, oldest photograph of our world in general created by the photography pioneers like Louis Daguerre, Hippolyte Bayard, Robert Cornelius and more.

These are some of the oldest images, some dating almost 200 years back, that have contributed to the development of the medium in a great manner.