The first faked photograph

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In 1839, Hippolyte Bayard invented photography. And nobody cared.
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People usually associate the birth of photography with Louis Daguerre’s Daguerreotype. His process became the first widespread method of photography after France revealed it to the world on August 19, 1839. But there were actually multiple inventors of photography, and one of them was an amateur French tinkerer named Hippolyte Bayard. Even before Daguerre’s process was revealed, Bayard had achieved photographic results.
However, François Arago, the chair of the French Academy of Sciences, overlooked Bayard’s accomplishment and elevated Daguerre’s instead. And as a protest to this perceived injustice, Bayard took a self-portrait depicting himself as an unidentified man in the Paris Morgue who took his own life. This image is not only the first staged photo, it’s also an early example of photography depicting something non-literal and symbolic, laying the groundwork for the medium to be used as a form of creative expression.
Bayard's photographs at the French Society of Photography:
www.sfp.asso.fr/photographie/index.php?/search/76
Sources:
The Drowned Inventor, Jillian Lerner: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03087298.2014.939825?journalCode=thph20&
The Impossible Photograph, Michal Sapir:
muse.jhu.edu/article/20909
The New History of Photography, Michal Frizot:
www.scribd.com/doc/210934705/The-New-History-of-Photography-Michel-Frizot
(If you or someone you know is considering self-harm, please seek help through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.)
Note: The headline for this video has been updated since publishing.
Previous headline: Why this photography pioneer faked his own death
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@Vox 5 жыл бұрын

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@desaiharsh5629 5 жыл бұрын

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@SumDumGai5 5 жыл бұрын

@@desaiharsh5629 That would be a good one.

@elijahward3920 5 жыл бұрын

I think the photograph from the Battle of L.A would be a good darkroom episode

@amarnathshenoy7813 5 жыл бұрын

It's been 6 days man. Come up with the next video already. I want to watch some of this while eating dinner bro.

@JuanDelfin 5 жыл бұрын

An episode on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. April 26, 1986. There is said to be only one existing picture taken of the disaster the morning of.

@thalia141 5 жыл бұрын

it’s like when you tell a joke but someone else says it louder

@jackkraken3888 5 жыл бұрын

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@theamhway 5 жыл бұрын

HIGH on POTenuse

@Albanez39 5 жыл бұрын

The definition of marketing.

@ronnygattuso1908 5 жыл бұрын

IT"S LIKE WHEN YOU TELL A JOKE BUT SOMEONE ELSE SAYS IT LOUDER

@thalia141 5 жыл бұрын

@@ronnygattuso1908 LOL

@zuko1569 5 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh he's the great grandfather of clickbait that's pretty awesome

@ConFall 5 жыл бұрын

Nobody : KZfaqrs Thumbnail : Ali-A lookalike thumbnail*

@Harley411 5 жыл бұрын

LMAO you're the next justin y.

@rmrhz 5 жыл бұрын

the analogy!

@sheikhmohsin57 5 жыл бұрын

Up you go!

@sheronmathew9802 5 жыл бұрын

these daguerrotypes had me DEAD!

@adityadeshpande9781 5 жыл бұрын

You did it again Vox, you created a video on the subject that I have no knowledge and made it interesting

@benjaminkormendi9977 5 жыл бұрын

Vox should be more focused on these kinds of videos and leave these "opinions" out of their business. But who am I to tell what should they do...

@lmaolmfao3611 5 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminkormendi9977 The propaganda machine gotta keep running

@stephcurry9524 5 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminkormendi9977 another conservative snowflake😂😂😂

@ryadhasanahmed5443 5 жыл бұрын

@@lmaolmfao3611 and fox news isn't a propaganda machine?🤔

@imback2killu328 5 жыл бұрын

@@stephcurry9524 damn I ain't conservative I'm in the middle but I rather go conservative than liberals...Jesus Christ I can't handle them snowflakes

@EVILBUNNY28 4 жыл бұрын

Bayard literally just said "That feeling when someone uses your work and passes it off as their own" It was literally a photo and a caption. Bruh, he made a meme.

@stoplightgaming2302 4 жыл бұрын

The first meme

@cybr69lol 3 жыл бұрын

oh my god,

@hiarmyonces1831 3 жыл бұрын

The first meme ;)

@lrrr9734 3 жыл бұрын

Memes were around long before him

@primo4915 2 жыл бұрын

Memes existed in the ancient Roman age

@andrewang1925 5 жыл бұрын

Anyone feel bad for M. Bayard??

@ms.rstake_1211 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah! I would have hurt that politician then photographed it.

@acatssoftnose3940 5 жыл бұрын

@Re Up In other documentaries, Daguerre is noted for also having prevented the earlier inventors from showcasing their work as well. Daguerre, overall, was a horrible person.

@Raven-mu7ty 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@user-ok8yq6nc6x 4 жыл бұрын

@Re Up This is true but you have to remember he didn't know they invented it when he did so you can imagine his disappointment when he thought he invented an immensely important thing but was just a tad bit late to the party. That's why people feel bad for him

@FanOfMinatozakiSana 4 жыл бұрын

i always tell this to my younger ones.

@leifharmsen 5 жыл бұрын

You might argue that someone else invented the photogaphic process first, but he was the first photographer.

@p_eabean 5 жыл бұрын

@Re Up I take lots of selfies, can I call myself a photographer?

@AnnoyingAsianWitch 5 жыл бұрын

@Re Up it's not literal.

@leifharmsen 5 жыл бұрын

@@p_eabean No.

@leifharmsen 5 жыл бұрын

@Re Up Just because whoever it was took a picture, does not make whoever it was a photographer.

@Sophia-by5gx 5 жыл бұрын

GreenGrounds:....knee slapper....heh....heh...

@nickgehr6916 5 жыл бұрын

_he's the OG sleeping selfie_

@tropezando 5 жыл бұрын

Bae caught me sleepin

@johnnyfrankenstein0123 4 жыл бұрын

@@tropezando 😳😳😳

@macakroyd6474 2 жыл бұрын

Tf is a sleeping selfie

@valentins.2637 5 жыл бұрын

Don't trust a Frenchman. Or a grown man with shoulder long hair. Or a band without a drummer. Actually don't trust anyone

@rotemtamir3404 4 жыл бұрын

Valentin S. Also, don't trust a song that's flawless

@TheHappyGabeShow 4 жыл бұрын

@@rotemtamir3404 cause it could be copyrighted

@peeyaubaid8153 4 жыл бұрын

😂

@Veikra 3 жыл бұрын

I dont trust you to tell me who I shouldnt trust !

@Veikra 3 жыл бұрын

@CJ Satnarine And I dont trust people yelling at me about not trusting me for not trusting people telling me not to trust others !

@JYMAHJAMES 3 жыл бұрын

"I'm dead 💀💀" - bayard

@Nugcon 3 жыл бұрын

💀💀 💀💀 💀💀 💀💀 💀💀

@plebthepebble3877 2 жыл бұрын

i{nsert skull emoji skull emoji

@combat_chameleon 2 жыл бұрын

"omg not daguerre claiming he invented photography 🙄🙄" - bayard

@shqipe7656 5 жыл бұрын

If it wasn’t for this guy all the models on Instagram would not have a career

@aracelirizo6577 5 жыл бұрын

Shqipe lmao😂

@PeytonMartell 3 жыл бұрын

you not wrong haha

@jd8527 5 жыл бұрын

I just wish he could see this !

@Vox 5 жыл бұрын

Me too. -Coleman

@senorswordfish6019 4 жыл бұрын

@@Vox My dog died...

@yee9222 4 жыл бұрын

@@senorswordfish6019 Yes

@g0desq 4 жыл бұрын

@@senorswordfish6019 I'm sorry to hear that

@senorswordfish6019 4 жыл бұрын

@MusicalGeek614 They tasted good tho so its ok

@NewbyTon 5 жыл бұрын

Did you know that colour didn't exist before modern cameras?

@jacobhill1782 5 жыл бұрын

I know this is a joke.. But paintings?

@wowarmy8154 5 жыл бұрын

@@NewbyTon *W O K E*

@blahbleh5671 5 жыл бұрын

@@NewbyTon what about meowmeow?

@jacobhill1782 5 жыл бұрын

@@NewbyTon Perhaps read some wikipedia articles or something? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography You can't be serious, right? Watercolor paintings?

@lemon3905 5 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhill1782 wait.. are you serious here? lol?

@huxley3043 5 жыл бұрын

bayard was SOOOOO dramatic im obsessed lol

@MeisterJ 5 жыл бұрын

This was fascinating. I knew multiple people had played around with photography but I hadn't known anyone else was so close to introducing a method to the world. Bayard's photos also have a gorgeous clarity to them, at least sometimes. Thank you for sharing such a great photo and an interesting counter figure in early photography.

@crozraven 5 жыл бұрын

the first ever HOAX PHOTO then??

@sauceaddict9569 5 жыл бұрын

Croz Raven ya

@Iz7zI 5 жыл бұрын

Its just a prank bro

@mrpalaces 5 жыл бұрын

Not exactly, since nobody was claiming that was a real suicide

@ognimimerkki 5 жыл бұрын

Well.. he made it, didn't he? His life and his work is being shown to audiences so large that he could have never imagined it, almost 200 years later no less.

@sandrarivera1262 5 жыл бұрын

As a photographer who has spent many years studying early photographers and their work, I love how this shines light on the lesser known

@melaniep4099 5 жыл бұрын

How have I never heard of this guy before? Wow he may not have been credited for inventing photography but ultimately created a new form of creative expression at the time

@balmain-i3e 5 жыл бұрын

This honestly makes me shutter

@McSpinkles 4 жыл бұрын

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

@vil5580 4 жыл бұрын

Shudder**

@u13613to 4 жыл бұрын

*@BALMAIN RICHARD* shutter?

@biakku3417 4 жыл бұрын

@@vil5580 Its a joke

@biakku3417 4 жыл бұрын

@lovedery its a joke

@AlasdairGR 5 жыл бұрын

Bayard’s method for exposing an image and developing it is more akin to the processes for film photography today, so in the long run he won I guess.

@Seele2015au 2 жыл бұрын

Unlike Talbot's process, Bayard's process did not produce a negative that can be used to produce an unlimited number of positive prints, but a direct positive process, making each picture unique. If one needed a unique picture, daguerréotype gives that extra quality, so when all is said and done, Bayard's process, like the daguerréotype, was a dead end.

@gracecalis5421 5 жыл бұрын

I like how clickbait was invented almost as early as actual photography

@bradd3971 5 жыл бұрын

Louis Daguerre was a French painter who created "daguerreotypes", a process that gave portraits a sharp reflective style, like a mirror. Now you're totally stuck in the Retro Zone. Sad face.

@missmeep5130 5 жыл бұрын

L i f e I s s t r a n ge

@laika6661 3 жыл бұрын

that line did not age well.

@clouds-rb9xt 2 жыл бұрын

@@laika6661 ?

@kiks4757 6 ай бұрын

life is strange - ahh haven't heard about it in a while

@mynciee 5 жыл бұрын

As a photographer: THANK YOU for doing this series. I love Vox but this series is by far my favourite. I thought I knew a lot about photography but you showed me something new. Please keep this series going!

@gabrielanjos8877 5 жыл бұрын

The best serie from this channel! Great work. It's just too good.

@-4subscriberswithahammerad521 5 жыл бұрын

Lokie lokie, the worlds first "haha, you got pranked the camera is over there"

@romaerb4161 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing from a light sculptor in the Show Me state. The history of photography is taken for granted. The light sculpting artist will always leave a little bit of him or herself in created images.

@kissCharles 5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love the darkroom series, good job and keep doing what ure doing :))

@lindalee7322 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. I had never heard of either man. Thanks for sharing! God bless you and keep you safe, high, and dry.

@amyang5622 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Vox (and the person who made this) This is great! I love Darkroom series so much!!

@MaxSnowDude 5 жыл бұрын

Vox KZfaq is the only Corporate KZfaq that makes good content

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Tell me about it, I love them

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Aye, only videos from them I dislike is when they get political though. Like most.

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CNBC too, mate.

@bigiron1311 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@oceanman_8370 4 жыл бұрын

What about Chedder, Cracked and Polygon?

@edgar.espinoza 4 жыл бұрын

This series is great! Congrats Coleman!

@spartan1010101 5 жыл бұрын

I love this series as a fan of Photography and as a fan of History. Bravo

@royzevisionneur2045 5 жыл бұрын

Imagine being the first to send a nude in history😲

@fitchyyboi 4 жыл бұрын

Or sending one to anyone at all

@len322 5 жыл бұрын

i love this series i hope it'll go on for a long time ! :D

@caec339 4 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or would anyone love to see this as a full length film of Bayards life?

@r15u5k00 5 жыл бұрын

this is a very cool story! I was always passively confused about why so many different people are credited with invention of photography and now I know more!

@Guyote_ 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could have met this man. Liked to garden and just take fun pictures of his stuff, and he had (what appears to me) a fantastic sense of humor. He must have been so fun to talk with. I would have loved to see his process for coming up with fun pictures in a time period where that simply was not a thing or a concept for people.

@Garland67 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video and very well put together. I learned something about Bayard that I didn't know.

@Natepeel2828 5 жыл бұрын

I LOVE this series. please keep it going.

@MrFearless 5 жыл бұрын

I loved the way the content was presented! Amazing!

@MyelinProductions 3 жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT! Thank you! Love these videos - Very useful and informative, very historic. Peace & Health!

@BuddyL 5 жыл бұрын

Fascinating story about the intersection of art, commerce, and politics.📷

@antsinmyeyes9547 5 жыл бұрын

Who doesn’t love windmills?!!?

@3otared 5 жыл бұрын

This could easily be the best VOX video! I'm a big fan of VOX's production but this video right here tops them off. I'm a cinematographer/photographer with some ok knowledge of the history of photography but today I've learned a whole bunch of things. Thanks Coleman.

@BrubandJfowl 5 жыл бұрын

Vox Darkroom is actually the best series on the channel currently. Amazing work.

@aaaadit5155 5 жыл бұрын

3:39 that guy’s name is Memes😂😂 Guess we found the inventor for that

@moaydsparklug8311 5 жыл бұрын

Aditya Dandwate lol xd

@Ghiaman1334 5 жыл бұрын

That's really awesome. A wonderfully artistic photo. I love this kind of analysis.

@JammyBandStudios 5 жыл бұрын

Darkroom is by far the best series (along with Borders) that you guys do!! Keep it up, amazingly interesting!

@shikharpriyadarshi3537 5 жыл бұрын

Literal goosebumps towards the end of the vid. Thanks for sharing

@juliettebouchery3550 2 жыл бұрын

Very exciting channel, thanks !

@zawb3a_ 4 жыл бұрын

I love this video thank you for this beautiful piece of information!

@paxundpeace9970 5 жыл бұрын

Great Production und Topics.

@shashankshukla5689 4 жыл бұрын

I really liked the video and the piece of information it delivers. I have a suggestion, you could have startex the video by explaining the photograph instead of explaining it in the middle and then carrying on into the back story. Audience would see it as if they are deducing the the photograph. Just a break in the narrative.

@RobertoLicardie 5 жыл бұрын

As a fellow upcoming photographer, I can relate to this video a little further. You see, this whole commotion screams envy and resentment. It also screams an opportunistic ill minded dude. These are some of the early feelings of competition we still see in today's photography world. Many of the local togs, short for photographers, are super envious. I get that competition drives the market, but this is the personal side of it. What photographers, like me, actually experience. By the way, love the research @Vox , its phenomenal. Wish i could write like that when doing college researches haha.

@Bonsees 5 жыл бұрын

Man, thanks for bringing M. Bayard to my attention

@m1dos391 4 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite playlist on KZfaq

@ms.rstake_1211 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! The Bayard man was a real genius (no joke).

@MellyTwilly 5 жыл бұрын

One of the many reasons the daguerreotype was so popular was because of its extremely high quality, unlike many others techniques that came before or after 1839.

@18sp01 5 жыл бұрын

Very good video. Loved it!

@thelast1nsstanding545 5 жыл бұрын

“Windmills, he loved windmills” I lost it. My god that’s great.

@JA-fu5yw 5 жыл бұрын

Very educational... thank you for sharing

@cassif19 5 жыл бұрын

This story is truly amazing!

@haig1010 5 жыл бұрын

Please keep making this Darkroom series!

@wowow4552 5 жыл бұрын

1:41 “Which process gave birth to the first self-portraits?” “The Daguerrian Process, Louis Daguerre made his portraits reflective like a mirror” (Life is strange fans already know what this is)

@eldafmawla977 4 жыл бұрын

i know somebody would comment this

@nathanngumi8467 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, very interesting history, thanks!

@lhamadopagode 5 жыл бұрын

Just the best video series on the Vox channel.

@lauraqueentint 5 жыл бұрын

darkroom is a very interesting new series that combines both technology, more specifically, film/photography with history! and you know what, I LOVE IT! both of those topics interests me

@beemer9108 5 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to care so much about a damn camera. Great video!

@Estebastien 5 жыл бұрын

So interesting! Thanks!

@beatricevalencia5916 5 жыл бұрын

I love this series!! Such a rich story from one photograph

@dirtylevel 5 жыл бұрын

I love DarkRoom it's really mysterious and ominous

@najmaali2916 5 жыл бұрын

this was absolutely well made. the music the information the editing man this was great can't wait for another video.

@ludwigjosh9619 5 жыл бұрын

All you need is an emoji and OMG it will become a thumbnail

@Colonel_MaelRadec 5 жыл бұрын

I love the change of music 👌🏻👏🏻

@ssokolow 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting, and something I'd have watched either way, but I was hoping this would be about the first doctored photograph, as in the first photograph showing a scene that never existed all in one place at one time.

@hellozup 5 жыл бұрын

I never heard of him but this is actually really cool... Like this kind of revenge(?) is very creative and pioneering for his time

@MetalizedButt 5 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine if you went back in time and showed them the images and videos you can record on your Iphone lol.

@gummypoppa 5 жыл бұрын

This was such a cool video. Thank you, Vox.

@ZoeAkiko 3 жыл бұрын

More darkroom videos pleaaasee !!! I keep re watching old ones

@louisf2654 5 жыл бұрын

19th century France is generally super fascinating. The long century of course from 1789 to 1914. It was a land filled with new ideas who did its best to find its footing in the modern world and all its steps lead to much progess in state administration, scientifc discoveries and such. So many different styles of goverments were tried and much of was worthy to bring to all societies found its way there.

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Absolutely in love with this channel and it's informative videos!

@yamazaki791 5 жыл бұрын

I love the darkroom series Please do more

@anastasiaburyak7824 5 жыл бұрын

Please make a video about a morgue!

@therealablert 5 жыл бұрын

You're Vox's best creator. Love your videos.

@amartyaroy3754 5 жыл бұрын

can you also do a video about the mystery photograph of the first camera?

@diekje8728 4 жыл бұрын

I study art history and this video was more clear and better explained then what my professor thought about this subject.

@kidkurmudgeon-0_o 5 жыл бұрын

Jeff Noon's book 'Slow Motion Ghosts' is a great example of this process in novel form

@edfoster792 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing and excellent video. This is some of the best arts programing on the internet.

@Khantlerpartesar 3 жыл бұрын

The moment that he said that this man loves window I knew I am in

@123456wasp Жыл бұрын

Good video! 😎👍

@Eva-ww8kx 4 жыл бұрын

He photographed the Laocoön group statue in Rome?! 5:13 Some of the sons' limbs that are missing today are still attached in the photograph, and the original bent arm of Laocöon had not been found yet.