The intriguing story of the “Damned Leaf” until now considered the First surviving Photo.
Since 2008, when the photo appeared at the Sothebys’ auction, the photo was dated 1790 and credited to Thomas Wedgwood, one of the Photography pioneer inventor.
The Leaf, firstly sold at Sotheby’s in London in 1984 for £6,000 by the Bright family from Bristol, become the object of incredible speculation in 2008 when in another auction was considered The First Photo ever made: the 170-year-old image could be worth millions of pounds.
After years of silent and denied conference by Sotheby’s, in June 2015, during the conference “Rethinking Early Photography”, Larry Schaaf, the most expert historian in early photography, just debunked the fake myth of the First Photo attributing it to Sara Anne Bright, 1839.
Until proven Otherwise / On the Evidence of the First Photos is still looking for the First Photo ever made, or better the first surviving photo; and is going to interview professor Larry Schaaf,.
The video of full conference:
http://www.rethinkingphotography.com/conference-videos/
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