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| Keywords: Facsimile-print Thomas Wedgwood.jpg en Photograms like these are made without a camera They record the shadows cast by actual objects placed on or near a sheet of photographic paper which darkens where it is exposed to light The first reliably documented images of this kind were made by Thomas Wedgwood around the year 1800 As a result he is sometimes called The First Photographer Wedgwood's primary goal was to capture the images formed by a lens in a camera obscura but the chemically treated paper he created was not sensitive enough for that purpose He did successfully capture shadow images of the type shown here but he was unable to chemically fix them they could only be viewed for short intervals in subdued light because further exposure to light eventually darkened them all over As early as the 1860s and as recently as 2008 it was occasionally claimed that some of Wedgwood's experimental photographs still survived but no such claims have ever been proved and some have been very definitely disproved http //photohistoryreview blogspot com/2008_09_01_archive html Author Circa mid-19th century PD-old 19th-century photographs | ||||
