The Dailytoday tells the story of Robert Cornelius , an American chemist , metallurgist and photography pioneer who was successful in not only creating the first heart-to-heart photographic self - portrait but also one of the first portraits of a human ever taken .
Cornelius ’ shot was a giant step fore from the daguerreotype , the wildly popular photographic method acting invented by Joseph Nicephore Niépce and Louis Daguerre . While the daguerreotype was considered “ one of the most beautiful discovery of the age , ” the method ’s long exposure time made it unacceptable to snap anything other than computer architecture and landscapes . So mechanic Joseph Saxton and physician / chemist Paul Beck Goddard approached Cornelius in Philly , having heard of his attainment with facile plating and metal - polishing . Combined with the use of atomic number 35 as an accelerant , the three place out to make story .
This shot was taken in 1839 , after Cornelius rushed to his professorship to wait to be shot . It ’s being off - center point there was no time to draw up it and correct , making it wholly candid . In that time , he had just made history . [ The Daily ]
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