The first photograph

The first was taken by the French Nicéphore Niepce, in 1826. It was made on a tin plate, with a layer of bitumen, and showed a view of a window.
The exhibition lasted eight hours.
around 1830-1840, two photographic processes were developed:
the daguerreotype of French L.J.M.
Daguerre and the calotype of the Englishman W.H.Fox Talbot. The daguerreotype used a silver-plated copper plate, instead of glass, exposed for a minute.
In 1888, the American George Eastman developed the Kodak camera, which exhibited rolls of film instead of plates.
*It was so long to be photographed at the end of the nineteenth century that back support was needed to stay put. If we blinked, they were blurry.