World Photography Day Aug 19, 2023

World Photography Day

On August 19, 1839, French artist and photographer Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre made public his invention that created an image using a silver-plated copper sheet and mercury vapor. The daguerreotype process became the first publicly available photographic process and was used throughout the 1840s and 1850s.

© Alfredo Piedrafita/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Aug 19, 2018Oh, the places you’ll go
Aug 19, 2019On the wings of the Wright brothers
Aug 19, 2020Freeze frame
Aug 19, 2021Happy World Photography Day!
Aug 19, 2022National Aviation Day
Aug 19, 2024National Aviation Day
Aug 19, 2025Solar Impulse 2 in Honolulu
Aug 19, 2026National Aviation Day

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Oct 1, 2022Yosemite National Park turns 132
Mar 17, 2025Happy St. Patricks Day!
Mar 4, 2025Happy Fat Tuesday!
Feb 27, 2025International Polar Bear Day
Jan 15, 2026The fishing village of Reine, Norway
Mar 10, 2023Vale of Edale, Peak District, England
Dec 24, 2019Dashing through the snow
Dec 18, 2024English National Ballet performing The Nutcracker
Jan 9, 2026Muir Woods National Monument anniversary
Sep 23, 2024Sea Otter Awareness Week
Oct 20, 2019Meet the slowest flirt in the animal world
Oct 28, 2026Kunětická hora Castle, Bohemia, Czechia
Dec 21, 2022Winter solstice
Dec 3, 2021Frost on autumn leaves
Mar 29, 2021Rising up from the black sand like rock gods
Apr 5, 2022Goðafoss waterfall, Iceland
May 28, 2022Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park, Australia
Apr 2, 2024Beech trees and wild anemones, Jutland, Denmark
Apr 28, 2019A good time in the Badlands
Jun 21, 2018Inhale and exhale, it’s Yoga Day
Sep 9, 2025A Eurasian red squirrel in Switzerland
Mar 6, 2022Great cormorants
Feb 13, 2022American bison
Aug 28, 2025A great white egret in Hungary
Jan 17, 2025Brown pelican, San Diego, California
Apr 2, 2025Sandstone formations in the badlands near Caineville, Utah
Jul 23, 2023Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Oct 18, 2021A Welsh wonder turns 70
Nov 6, 2021World Numbat Day
Jun 16, 2022Seonam Temple, South Korea