Anna Atkins, Polysiphonia formosa – Cyanotype
FIRST PHOTOGRAPH CANDIDATES
The SEETHINK Lab is currently in the process of confirming the following first photographs for the Zero Baseline of Photography.
Candidate No. 32, Credit: Science Museum Group, Author: A. M. Worthington, Title: Spark Photograph of Splash, Archive: The National Media Museum, Bradford, Source credit: Science Museum Group, enlarged Spark Photograph of Splash Caused by Stone Sphere. 1956-224 Science Museum Group Collection Online, Date: 1900
Candidate No. 37, Credit: MIT Media Lab, Authors: Chelsi Cocking and Jimmy Day, Title: Illuminate, used with permission of the artists. Avialable information: Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in which the movements of a person through open space are visually augmented and brought to life in front of them in real time through custom-coded interactive visualization software. Seamlessly merging physical and digital space, Illuminate submerges us into an artificial reality in which our usually unseen paths of movement become visible– seemingly levitating in space. This aims to give us a visceral yet magical moment in which we can see, interact with, and play with our once invisible wakes of motion—pushing the boundaries of our senses and making the invisible visible. The project also explores the themes of spatial computing, bodily expression, abstraction, and choreographic interfaces. Date: 2023
Candidate No. 38, Credit: Étienne-Jules Marey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Author: Étienne-Jules Marey, Title: Étienne-Jules Marey shaking a flexible rod, Archive: Zeno.org, Date: 1886
Candidate No. 35, Credit: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, Author: Anna Atkins, Title: Polysiphonia formosa, Archive: Rijksmuseum, Object type: photo page, Item number: RP-F-2016-133-233, Photographer: Anna Atkins, Place of manufacture: United Kingdom, Material: Photo Paper, Technique: cyanotype, Dimensions: page: h 250 mm × w 200 mm, Date: ca. 1843 - ca. 1853
Candidate No. 39, Credit: © Dr Paul-Antoine Moreau, Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY), Author: Moreau, P.-A., Toninelli, E., Gregory, T., Aspden, R. S., Morris, P. A., & Padgett, M. J. (2019), Title: Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behaviour, Archive: University of Glasgow’s School of Physics and Astronomy, Source: Science Advances, Date: 2019
Candidate No. 36, Credit: James Clerk Maxwell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Author: James Clerk Maxwell, Title: Tartan Ribbon, First colour photographic slides, Archive: James Clerk Maxwell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Source: Scanned from The Illustrated History of Colour Photography, Jack H. Coote, 1993. ISBN 0-86343-380-4. Date: 1861 (of original photographic slides)
Candidate No. 34: Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Public domain, Author: James Webb Telescope, NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Title: “Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula, Archive: James Webb Telescope, STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for research in Astronomy, Inc., under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Available information: Image is about 7.3 arcminutes across (16 light-years), Date: 3 June 2022
Candidate No. 33, Credit: Louis Boutan, Public domain, Author: Louis Boutan Title: Photographie sous-marine (underwater photography), Archive: Spiridon Manoliu's pictures, Source: Louis Boutan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Date: 1899
Candidate No. 30, Credit: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe, Author: Parker Solar Probe's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe), Title: First Photo inside the Sun’s Corona, Archive: NASA/NRL/Parker Solar Probe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are a result of background correction. Date: 12 December 2018, 06:45:12
Candidate No. 27, Credit: NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Author: unknown, Title: 1884_Oldest known photograph of a tornado, Archive: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Library, Date: 28 August 1884
Candidate No. 29, Credit: © 1981-2021 CERN (License: CC-BY-4.0), CERN Photo Archive, This event shows the real tracks produced in the Gargamelle bubble chamber that provided the first confirmation of a neutral current interaction. Date: 1 January 1973
Candidate No. 31, Credit: Voyager 1, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Author: Voyager 1, NASA, Title: Pale Blue Dot, Archive: Visible Earth NASA, Available information: This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed ‘Pale Blue Dot’, is a part of the first ever ‘portrait’ of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Date: 6 June 1990
Candidate No. 28, Credit: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Author: NASA, Title: 1976_First photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars, Archive: NASA, Available information: Taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars, this image is the first photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars. Date: 20 July 1976
FIRST PHOTOGRAPH CANDIDATES
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