This photo was taken 175 years ago and is one of the first images of a war ever captured on film. It was taken in 1847 of American cavalry riding into the city of Saltillo, during the the war with Mexico. This early photograph is known as a daguerrotype. Since its invention in 1839 photography has come to have an increasing number of military uses.
Unlike smartphones of today, painstaking artistic woodblock engravings were the basic method to capture an event for public consumption to print in newspapers, books, and posters. Nineteenth-century illustrated newspapers published and republished thousands of illustrations, from the sensational to the mundane, which enhanced the reading public’s experience with visual details. This was the illustrated forerunner of mass media and capturing a snapshot of events.
30 years later on June 19th, 1878 the first moving pitchure was made, an 11-frame clip shot using twelve separate cameras to film a man riding a horse on Leland Stanford’s Palo Alto Stock Farm (the eventual site of Stanford University).
The first full motion picture ever shot was Roundhay Garden Scene shot in 1888. Louis Le Prince and dazzles with eye with a remarkable display of 4 people walking in a garden (2.11 seconds).
The 1st day of Squadron Posters was June 16th 2012… Today there are over 4,000 Squadron Poster‘s works of art available, honoring all who serve! See all of our artwork here: HERE.
