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These 20 famous photographs are significant in history each for their own reason. Learn how photography has literally changed history.

louis jacques mande daguerre boulevard du tempe paris 1838

The daguerreotype was the process of development of photography which entered use in 1839 and quickly gained massive popularity in Europe. Invented by a

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Press cameras were forbidden from the prison execution chamber in Ossining, New York, where Ruth Snyder was to be electrocuted on January 12...

The First Photograph, or more specifically, the world's first permanent photograph from nature, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827. The image depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate, Le Gras, in the Burgundy region of France. Niépce's invention represents the origin of today's photography, film, and other media arts.

This huge copy of a camera won the first prize at the Ecclesfield Hospital carnival in 1933. Photograph.

A pioneer of photojournalism in the late 1880s and early 1900s, Beals is recognized as the first woman photographer hired on a newspaper staff.

3. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson invented a celluloid strip containing a sequence of images, which was then coated in a photosensitive gelatin emulsion. This innovation was then put into two inventions: the Kinetograph and the Kinetoscope, both of which were introduced by Thomas Edison at the Chicago World Fair in 1893. The Kinetograph is considered the first practical motion picture camera, though it was the Kinetoscope that became significantly popular.

"Dickey Chapelle was born Georgette Meyer in Shorewood, Wisconsin. Chapelle covered the Second World War in Iwo Jima and Okinawa and became known for her coverage of major wars for Life, Look, and National Geographic. In 1965, while covering the Vietnam conflict, Chapelle was killed by a landmine. She was the first female correspondent killed in action."