Photographs iceberg

Photographs iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "Photographs Iceberg", was posted by u/TheUmbilicalCordGuy on 7 June 2021 and had about 871 upvotes when it was collected. A text version, "Photographs" by ..., is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 1,288 views as of 29 October 2026.

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "Original iceberg by TheUmbilicalCordGuyReddit. Upload date: May 3rd, 2021."

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"Photographs Iceberg" by u/TheUmbilicalCordGuy (7 June 2021)

Tiers

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1

• Bliss – A photograph of a hill located in California's Wine Country, used as the Microsoft Windows XP default wallpaper. This is the most viewed photograph of all time.
• The Blue Marble – A photograph taken by the Apollo 17 crew en route to the moon, it is the most iconic photo of the Earth.
• Earthrise – Astronaut William Anders captures the Earth rising over the Moon's horizon during the Apollo 8 mission.
• Pale Blue Dot – Final photo taken by Voyager 1's camera, depicting a distant Earth cradled by a sunbeam.
• V-J Day in Times Square – A U.S. Navy sailor pulls a dental assistant into a kiss. The two never knew each other, and the woman did not ask to be kissed. The duo, George Mendosa and Greta Zimmer Friedman, would later be…
• Afghan Girl – Steve McCurry photographs an adolescent refugee of the Soviet-Afghan War, Sharbat Gula.
• Migrant Mother – Dorothea Lange photographs Florence Leona Christie (later Florence Owens Thompson) and her seven children having just migrated to California during the Great Depression.
• Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima – During the Battle of Iwo Jima, six Marines are photographed raising the United States flag atop a mountain on the island.
• Into the Jaws of Death – Photograph taken by Coast Guard officer Robert F. Sargent of the Omaha Beach landings on D-Day.
• Pillars of Creation – Region of the Eagle Nebula famously photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.
• Tank Man – A Tiananmen Square protestor stands before a line of tank attempting to advance into the square. After a few minutes of the tank trying to drive around the man, a group of other people escort the man…
• Buzz Aldrin photographed by Neil Armstrong – Neil Armstrong's photograph of Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon taken during the Apollo 11 mission.
• Lunch atop a Skyscraper – A group of construction workers eat lunch and read the news while perched of a iron beam during the construction of the Rockefeller Center.
• The Falling Man – A victim of the 9/11 attacks jumps from the World Trade Center to avoid burning to death.
• Last photos of Omayra Sánchez – A Colombian girl who was pinned by debris and and trapped in water after the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz. She died, aged 13, due to either gangrene or hypothermia after 60 hours of struggling.
• Hindenburg disaster – Nazi blimp go ka-boom.
• Abbey Road cover – The Beatles cross the street for the cover photo of Abbey Road.
• Instagram egg – A picture of an egg that became the most liked Instagram post of all time, garnering 55 million likes.
• Bernie Sanders mittens – Bernie Sanders wears a pear of mittens knitted by local elementary school teacher Jen Ellis while attending the inauguration of Joe Biden.
• Situation Room – Barack Obama and his national security team observe the raid on Osama Bin Laden's bunker.
• Family Portrait – Voyager 1's mosaic of six of the Solar System's planets. This is also the source of the Pale Blue Dot photo.
• Guerrillero Heroico – The most iconic photo of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
• Bruce McCandless II – A photograph of astronaut Bruce McCandless II completing the first untethered spacewalk in 1984.
• 1968 Olympics Black Power salute – African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who had just won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 200-meter run, raise their fists into the air to protest racism and discrimination…
• Brown Lady of Raynham Hall – The most famous alleged ghost photograph of all time. The alleged subject of the photo was Lady Dorothy Walpole, who was held captive by her husband Charles Townshend following an affair with Lord…
• Einstein sticks his tongue out – In 1951, photojournalist Arthur Sasse asked Albert Einstein to smile for a photograph. Tired of smiling for photograph, Einstein instead stuck his tongue out as a twist. Both Einstein and Sasse…
• The photos in the Voyager Golden Record – Launched into space with the Voyager 1 probe, these photos were intended for intelligent extraterrestrial life forms to help understand human culture.
• Alexander Gardner's Lincoln photo – The most iconic photograph of sixteenth President Abraham Lincoln.
• Pluto – Photograph of Pluto's northern hemisphere taken in true color by the New Horizons probe in 2015.
• The Roaring Lion – Portrait of Winston Churchill taken during World War II.
• Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston – Taken by Neil Leifer in 1965.
• Cotton Mill Girl – Photograph of a girl subjected to child labor, taken by Lewis Hine in 1908.
• Flying Skirt – Marilyn Monroe's skirt is blown upwards by a̶ ̶g̶i̶g̶a̶n̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶f̶a̶r̶t̶ a passing subway.
• Elián González – A Border Patrol agent confronts Donato Dalrymple and Elián González in one of the most publicized and controversial custody and immigration cases of all time.
• Ralph Cleavenger's iceberg – A collection of 4 different images
• Time-Traveling Hipster – A photograph alleged to depict a "time-traveling hipster" present at the South Fork Bridge's 1941 re-opening. However, historical analysis shows that the fashion statements the man made were present…
• Woman with a handbag – A photo which depicts a 38 year old woman, Danuta Danielsson hitting a neo-nazi with a handbag

Tier 2

• Raising a Flag over the Reichstag – A Soviet soldier raises the flag of the USSR after the Red Army's victory in the Battle of Berlin.
• Photograph of Marina Ginestà – A Spanish republican journalist for Pravda, armed with a sniper rifle, observes the military uprising in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War.
• Boulevard du Temple – The first photograph to depict people, taken by Louis Daguerre.. A shoe-shiner clean the shoe of a patron. The duo remained still for long enough to be fully exposed to the camera, while the other…
• Mystic Mountain – A region of the Carina Nebula famously photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2010.
• View from the Window at Le Gras – The oldest surviving photograph of a real-world location, taken by Nicéphore Niépce.
• UC Davis pepper spray incident – A cop is photographed pepper spraying student demonstrators at UC Davis during the Occupy movement.
• Monolith, the Face of Half Dome – Ansel Adam's iconic photograph of a half-shadowed, half-lit Half Dome at Yosemite National Park.
• Titanic rediscovery – In 1985, the wreck of the RMS Titanic was rediscovered a third of a mile off the coast of Newfoundland, and 1,250 miles away from its intended destination in New York City. The ship had been split in…
• Hubble Deep Field – Towards the end of 1995, the HST was ordered to point its camera at a seemingly empty region of the sky with few stars. Although this was initially met with skepticism, the resulting photograph…
• Last photo of Princess Diana alive – Last photo taken of Princess Diana before she, her partner and the driver were killed in a car crash.
• Kozarčanka – A smiling Yugoslav partisan photographed during World War II. Despite never being identified, she went on to become a nation icon in Yugoslavia.
• Crasher Squirrel – A squirrel crashes a photograph taken by a Minnesota couple visiting Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
• Crying Jordan – Michael Jordan cries as he is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Burning wind turbine – Two Dutch engineers share a final embrace after being trapped atop the wind turbine they were working on, which was burning up. One engineer jumped and died from the fall, while the other stayed and…
• Station Squabble – Two mice fight over a crumb in the London Underground
• Piss Christ – A figurine of a crucified Jesus Christ sits in glass of Andreas Serrano's piss. Far-right Christian groups were appalled by the image and demanded it be banned, despite the fact that Serrano himself…
• Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park – Diane Arbus' photo of a child holding a toy hand grenade while in New York City's Central Park.
• The Day the Earth Smiled – In 2013, the Saturn probe Cassini captured an image of the planet's eclipse of the Sun, unexpectedly also capturing the Earth.
• First photo of a black hole – M87*, Messier 87's supermassive black hole, was the first ever black hole to be photographed, being captured by the Event Horizon Telescope team in 2018/9 after a grueling months-long process.
• Surgeon's photograph – Hoax photograph claiming to depict the Loch Ness Monster.
• The Babe Bows Out – Legendary ballplayer Babe Ruth officially retires in 1948, two months before dying from terminal cancer. Taken by Nat Fein, this is the first sports photograph to earn a Pulitzer Prize.
• Jack Ruby assassinates Lee Harvey Oswald – Jack Ruby assassinates Lee Harvey Oswald, who was being arrested for assassinating John F. Kennedy.
• The Horse in Motion – A series of photographs taken in 1878 by Eadweard Muybridge; when put together they form the first ever motion picture.
• Cottingley Fairies – Five photographs from 1917 to 1920 allegedly showing two girls meeting fairies. Before the girls died of old age in 1980s, they gave interviews admitting the first four photographs were hoaxes, but…
• St. Paul's Survives – St. Paul's Cathedral in London is unscathed during the Blitz. This photograph would spark a large boost in British morale in World War II.
• Warsaw ghetto boy – A Jewish boy surrenders to an SS-Rottenführer pointing a submachine gun at him during the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
• Auschwitz Album – A series of photographs taken of the extermination process in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
• Pepper No. 30 – A pepper stands among a dimly lit background.
• Hands – Photograph by Michael Wells of a missionary holding hands with a starved, emaciated Ugandan boy.
• A few seconds before happiness – a 1955 black-and-white photograph that depicts a man holding a puppy behind his back with his right hand, about to present it to a young boy.
• Patterson–Gimlin film – Still frame from a motion picture depicting the infamous "Bigfoot" creature.
• Dewey Defeats Truman – Harry Truman holds up an issue of the Chicago Tribune claiming Thomas Dewey defeated him.

Tier 3

• Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico – Ansel Adams photographs the Moon rising over New Mexico as the final hints of sunlight leave the sky.
• Rhein II – A photograph of the Lower Rhine river. In 2011, it was auctioned for $4.3 million, making it the most expensive photograph sold, beating The Pond—Moonlight. It would hold this record until it was…
• The Kiss of Death – Actress Linda Christian kisses racecar driver Alfonso de Portago at a pit stop, moments before he is killed in a crash.
• Valley of the Shadow of Death – Photograph taken by Roger Fenton during the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War. The cannonballs littering the valley are visible in the photo. A second photo was taken by Fenton after the siege…
• Solvay Conference 1927 – An iconic photo of a meeting of numerous scientists of multiple fields, including Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Max Planck.
• The Ultimate Confrontation – Student demonstrator Jan Rose Kasmir, who was protesting the Vietnam War at the time, holds a flower to a horde of bayonet-armed soldiers.
• The Elephant's Foot – A large clump of nuclear waste photographed after the Chernobyl incident. The distortion and graininess of the photo is not caused by the camera's age, but rather the radiation affecting the film.
• 99 Cent – 1999 photograph by Andreas Gursky of the 99 Cents Only store in Los Angeles. This is one of the most expensive photographs ever taken.
• Shell shocked soldier, 1916 – A soldier suffers from shell shock during the Somme offensive in World War I.
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki mushroom cloud – The mushroom clouds formed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the waning days of World War II. The photograph was taken by the departing crew of the Enola Gay.
• Omagh bombing – Photo taken minutes before the car bomb attack in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The rigged car is visible in the photograph. Both the father and his child survived, but the photographer died in the blast.
• The Tetons and the Snake River – Ansel Adams' photograph of the Grand Tetons and neighboring Snake River.
• Kombat – An unidentified Soviet military officer raising his units for an attack against the Nazis. The most likely subject of the photograph is Aleksei Yeryomenko, who was killed in action minutes later.
• Reynaldo Dagsa's last photo – Reynaldo Dagsa was a Filipino politician known for accidentally taking a photo of his own assassin. While taking a photograph of his family, the assassin enters the frame and immediately kills him…
• Elk Bath – Photograph taken by Bureau of Land Management employee John McColgan of a wildfire in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest.
• Raising the Flag at Ground Zero – Photograph of three firefighters raising the flag of United States over the remains of the World Trade Center on 9/11. This photo is often compared to Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
• Solway Firth Spaceman – A girl is photographed by her father, with her mother standing in the background. Conspiracy theorist mistook the mother (who wore a white shirt and hat and had short black hair) for an alien wearing…
• First digital photograph – The first digital was taken by Russell A. Kirsch of his son Walden in 1957.
• Final Titanic photograph – Final photograph taken of the RMS Titanic as it departs from Southampton. No photos from the actual sinking exist.
• Fountain – Photograph of Marcel Duchamp's readymade sculpture Fountain, taken by photographer and showman Alfred Steglitz shortly before the piece was lost to time.
• Pluto discovery – The discovery photographs of Pluto taken by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.
• First photo on Mars – Taken by the Viking 1 lander in 1976.
• Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare – Taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1932, showing a man leaping across puddles of water.
• First photo of a president – A daguerrotype taken by Philip Haas of sixth President John Quincy Adams.
• The Black Knight – 1998 photograph of space debris taken from the Endeavour space shuttle, which some conspiracy theorist believe to be an ancient alien spacecraft named "the Black Knight."
• Billy the Kid – Only surviving 100% authenticated photograph of Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid.
• Dancing Man – An Australian man dances to celebrate the Allied victory in World War II.
• 2011 Stanley Cup riot couple – A young couple kissing in the street during the 2011 Stanley Cup riot
• Budd Dwyer with a pistol – Budd Dwyer is telling someone to stay back before he shoots himself. This was all caught on television.
• Wait for Me, Daddy
• US Airways Flight 1549 – splashed down in the Hudson river
• Le Violon d'Ingres – Le Violon d'Ingres is a photograph of a woman with musical symbols writen on her back, depicting the model's torso as a musical instrument. In 2022, the photo would get sold for $12.4 million, making…

Tier 4

• Robert Landsburg's Mt. St. Helens photos – Photographer Robert Landsburg was able to take four photos of Mt. St. Helens erupting. After taking the photos, he shielded the camera with his person and was quickly blanketed by the rapid wave of…
• Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906 – One of the most notable photos depicting the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
• Tunguska event aftermath – The aftermath of the Tunguska event, in a meteor exploded approximately four miles above the Earth's surface, ravaging a Siberian forest below.
• Green Boots – The titular "Green Boots" is an unidentified hiker who died during an attempted ascent of Mount Everest. It is impossible to recover their body, and they are now used as a waypoint by other hikers.
• Black Hills before carving – A region of the Black Hills, then known as a sacred Lakota site titled the Six Grandfathers, photographed before being carved up to make Mount Rushmore.
• Hollyweed – When California decriminalized cannabis in 1976, Cal State Northridge student Danny Finegood changed the Hollywood sign to read "Hollyweed" as an art project. He got an A.
• The first selfie – Robert Cornelius takes a self-portrait in 1839.
• The Pond—Moonlight – Edward Steichen's pictorialist photo of a pond near Long Island. In 2006, it would become one of most expensive photographs of all time, selling for $2.9 million. It would hold this title until Rhein…
• Eyes of Hate – Photograph of Joseph Goebbels upon learning the photographer was Jewish.
• Spectre of Newby Church – An alleged ghost photo taken in 1963 at the Church of Christ the Consoler in Newby Hall, United Kingdom
• A Great Day in Harlem – 57 Harlem-based jazz musicians pose for a photograph taken by Art Kane.
• First aerial photo – Aerial photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, taken by James Wallace Black and Samuel Archer King in 1860.
• Hubble Ultra-Deep Field – Deep field image taken by Hubble, consisting of approximately 10,000 galaxies.
• MESSENGER's family portrait – The Mercury probe MESSENGER captured a mosaic of the Solar System's first six planets from the orbit of Mercury.
• First space selfie – Buzz Aldrin took the first selfie in outer space during the Gemini 10 mission in 1966.
• The Magnificent Eleven – Series of eleven photographs taken by war photographer Robert Capa of one of the earliest waves of troops landing in Omaha.
• First photograph from another planet – Taken on Venus by the Soviet Union's Venera 9 spacecraft in 1975.
• David at its original site – Michelangelo's statue David seen at its original site, the Palazzo Vecchio, before being moved to its current site at the Galleria dell'Accademia.
• David encased in bricks – David was completely encased in stone bricks during World War II to prevent damage from bombs.
• Mona Lisa recovered – The Mona Lisa is recovered in 1913, two years after being stolen by Louvre employee and Italian nationalist Vincenzo Peruggia.
• Hand mit Ringen – First X-ray photograph, taken by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife Anna's hand in 1895.
• First photo of Earth from orbit – Taken by the Explorer 6 satellite in 1960.
• First photo of lightning – Taken by William Jennings in 1882.
• Halley's comet 1910 – Halley's comet photographed from Harvard during its 1910 approach.
• First photo of a solar eclipse – Taken by Julius Berkowski at the Koenigsberg Observatory during the July 28, 1851
• Chairman Mao Swims in the Yangtze – The title describes itself.
• Nautilus – Edward Weston's 1927 photograph of a nautilus shell standing against a dark background.
• Buchenwald wedding rings – An Allied soldier observes some of the thousand wedding rings that Nazis had looted from Jewish prisoners about to be executed in Buchenwald.
• Nine Sovereigns – The nine kings of Europe gather for the state funeral of British king Edward VII
• First photo of Machu Picchu – Captured by Yale archeologist Hiram Bingham in 1911.
• First photo of a giant squid – Captured by Reverend Moses Harvey in 1874.
• First photo of the Earth from the Moon. – Take by Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966.
• First photograph of a ship – Photograph of the SS Great Britain captured by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1844.
• Willy – Captured by Mary Dillwym in 1853, this is the first photograph of a person smiling.
• Challenger Disaster – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after take-off.
• The Wall Falls – The fall of the Berlin wall.

Tier 5

• Intérieur d'un cabinet de curiosité – The first Daguerreotype, depicting a still life in a cabinet.
• Equivalents – A series of photographs of clouds taken by Alfred Steglitz from 1925 to 1934.
• The Great Picture – The world's largest photograph.
• New Yorkers witness Seinfeld finale – A crowd of New Yorkers view the series finale of Seinfeld in Times Square
• First picture of the Moon – John William Draper took the first photograph of the Moon from his rooftop observatory in 1840. Unfortunately, time has caused the photograph to become heavily damaged, with only the spherical shape…
• Draper's improved Moon photo – Draper would take a second, much more detailed picture of the Moon.
• Stalin's reaction to the capture of Kiev – After Nazi Germany advanced into Kiev during Operation Barbarossa, Joseph Stalin was photographed looking visibly upset and afraid by the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda. Stalin, wanting to…
• First underwater photo – First photo taken underwater, a photograph taken by diver Louis Marie Auguste Boutan of biologist Emil Racovitza in a diving suit.
• First photo of Great Pyramids and Sphinx – First photograph of the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx, taken by Maxime du Camp in 1849.
• Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey – First photograph negative and first paper photograph, taken by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835.
• First photo of a tornado – Depicting the 1884 Howard, South Dakota tornado, this photograph was taken by F.N. Robinson.
• Kynžvart Daguerreotype – Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1839, depicting a still life of several classical Greek photographs.
• Trump meets Shrek and Curious George – It's exactly what you think it might be.
• Blessed Art Thou Among Women – 1899 photograph by Gertrude Käsebier, showing the bond between mother and child.
• First photo of Orion Nebula – Taken by astronomer Henry Draper in 1880.
• First photo of Niagara Falls – Captured by Hugh Lee Pattinson in 1840.
• First photo taken by Neil Armstrong on the moon – Neil Armstrong took his first photograph of the surface of the moon moments after making his first steps.
• Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald – The photograph depicts the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby while Oswald was being escorted by police two days after he had assassinated US president John F. Kennedy.
• First Cell-Phone Picture – The subject is Sophie, the daughter of Philippe Kahn, taken on June 11, 1997.

Tier 6

• Edna Cintron waves for help – Edna Cintron was a employee at the WTC-headquartered firm Marsh and McLennan, who had lived in New York City since she and her mother moved there in 1955. Although Cintron survived the initial plane…
• Selene Delgado Lopez – In the 90s, Mexican TV station Canal 5 aired an emergency broadcast reporting the disappearance of a supposed Selene Delgado Lopez. However, there does not seem to be evidence of a "Selene Delgado…
• Hiroshima shadows – The blast from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima caused the shadows of people vaporized by the blast to have their shadows imprinted behind where they were last standing.
• First picture of the Sun – The very first picture of the Sun was taken in 1845 by French physicists Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault.
• First picture of Vega – Vega was the first star, other than the Sun, to be photographed. The photo was taken by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory.
• SCOTUS in session – The only two photos of the Supreme Court in session. The first was taken in 1932 by a German photojournalist named Erich Salomon, who faked a broken arm and placed his camera inside the sling. The…
• Niépce's actual earliest surviving photograph – View from the Window at Le Gras is commonly misattributed as the first photograph. The actual first photograph, taken one year earlier by Nicéphore Niépce, depicts an engraving of a man and a horse.…
• Dorothy Catherine Draper – The sister of polymath John William Draper, she was first woman ever photographed in 1839/40.
• The Flatiron – Edward Steichen's photograph of the Flatiron Building in New York City.
• The Haystack – Taken by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1844.
• First Japanese photograph – Photograph of feudal lord Shimazu Nariakira in 1857.
• Burning Mills at Owego NY – Captured by George Bernard in 1853, this is likely the first photograph of a burning building.
• First photo of someone giving the finger – Old Hoss Radbourn, a pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, flips off a member of the New York Giants in 1886.
• A Sea of Steps – One of Frederick H. Evan's finest works in architectural photography.
• First Satellite Image – The first satellite image on the Explorer VI.
• First picture of Jupiter – The earliest surviving photo of Jupiter was taken by Andrew Ainslie Common on 1879.
• Passage de Venus – Taken in 1874 during Venus' transit across the sun.

Tier 7

• Yuri Krivonischenko's final photo – Also known as "Frame No.34", this final photo taken by Dyatlov pass hiker Yuri Krivonischenko featured a set of unknown lights, fueling the already existing conspiracy theories surrounding the…
• Semyon Zolotaryov's final photos – Similar to Krivonischenko, hiker Semyon Zolotaryov's final photos also captured lights, this time visible in the sky. This has also fueled conspiracy theories.
• Thibeaux-Brignolle's yeti photo – The seventeenth photo taken by Nikolay Vladimirovich Thibeaux-Brignolle captures a mysterious figure in the woods. Conspiracy theories say this is yeti, with some claiming the photo's alleged "yeti"…
• Original photo used to make Jeff the Killer – This is currently lost media. The linked photo is the earliest traced and least edited photo used to make the Jeff the Killer image.
• Disapperance of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers – Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers were two Dutch students who disappeared on April 1st, 2014 while hiking the El Pianista trail in Boquete, Panama. Their remains were partially found alongside a few…
• William West's leaf – This photograph was infamously misattributed to be one of Thomas Wedgewood's 1790s experiments.

Tier 8

• Niépce's 1816 experiments – Niépce produced images using paper and silver chloride in 1816, but the images were quickly ruined when exposed to light. Niépce would promptly quit using silver and instead use other materials to…
• Jacques Charles' 1801 fleeting negative photograms of silhouettes – Jacques Charles captures photograms on light-sensitive paper.
• Thomas Wedgewood and Humphrey Davy's 1790-1802 fleeting photograms – Thomas Wedgewood captured images using glass plates, leather and paper soaked in silver nitrate. These experiments were documented by Humphry Davy.
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele's 1777 chemical fixer – Carl Wilhelm Scheele's discovery that light would darken silver chloride sample and ammonia would dissolve lighter particles, leaving behind the darker metallic silver particles.
• Johann Heinrich Schulze's 1727 silver nitrate and chalk experiments – Johann Heinrich Schulze's experiments that used light to darken a mixture of silver nitrate and chalk.
• Wilhelm Homberg's 1694 chemical experiments – Wilhelm Homberg found that exposure to light can darken certain chemicals.
• Angelo Sala's 1614 silver nitrate experiments – Angelo Sala found that sunlight will turn powdered silver nitrate black, and paper would turn black when coated around silver nitrate for a full year.

Tier 9

• The first written use of the camera obscura phenomenon – The earliest recorded direct human use of camera obscura occurred in ancient China in the 4th century BCE, as documented in the Mozi.
• Natural occurrences of camera obscura likely inspired cave paintings – Some archeologists theorize that natural or accidental instances of camera obscura (such as light flowing through holes in tents or animal hides becoming screens) served as a possible inspiration for…

See also

• Iceberg chart
• R/IcebergCharts
• Cursed media iceberg

Sources

• Featured Reddit chart: u/TheUmbilicalCordGuy. Photographs Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 7 June 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
• IcebergThreads version: .... Photographs. IcebergThreads. 27 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.