The first photo ever taken was in 1826 at Saint Loup de Varenne in France by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce a French inventor.
"Point de vue du Gras" is the title of the first successful picture that changed the world.
What you need to know about this human progress is that it needed a total of 8 hours of exposure during the daylight, a camera obscura and lot patience for such result!