On social networks, you can find many publications with sensational headlines: it turns out that the great Russian poet managed to shoot onto the camera. We checked whether the existence of such a picture is possible.
Posts with the allegedly lifetime photograph of Pushkin can be found in "VKontakte", Pinterest, Facebook, Livejournal, Twitter and other social networks. Basically, the picture appears in public, which are devoted to “interesting” facts, but sometimes it can be found in the communities of fans of the writer. Although the signatures for supposedly Pushkin’s photographs are significantly different, some users even claim that the poet personally shot one of the inventors of the photograph of Louis Dager (either in Paris, or in St. Petersburg).
The first experiments that directly lead to modern photography really occurred during Pushkin’s life. The poet's contemporary, Frenchman Joseph Nieps for several years I experienced Different technologies for fixing the image. In 1827, the inventor managed to take a picture “View from the window to Le-grade”, which They think The earliest photograph received using the Obskura camera. Moreover, the exposition of this picture I took it, according to various estimates, from several hours to several days - it is unlikely that at least one model could sit in front of the camera for so long. It is striking how “the view from the window to Le-grade” is inferior as the alleged portrait of Pushkin.
The case of the deceased in 1833 Nieps continued Louis Dager. He improved the process of obtaining a picture, and in 1839 were represented Instructions for obtaining the so -called daggerrotypes. The first photo with the image of people called A year earlier, the picture “Temple Boulevard”, but due to exposure for several minutes, most human figures were smeared on it. But already in 1839 it appeared that in the XXI century it will become an integral part of modern life - a selfie. Yourself Take a picture Pioneer of American photography Robert Cornelius. It is noticeable that this frame is already more similar in quality to the portrait of supposedly Pushkin.
