Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography...
Title: Emil Racovitza as diver at Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer
Location: France
Date: 1899
Photographer: Louis Boutan (1859-1934)
Process: photography
Note: This is the first underwater portrait in the history of photography. It appears in Boutan's book titled La Photographie sous-marine et les progrès de la photographie. The sign held by his colleague Racovitza reads "Photographie Sous Marine" ("Underwater Photography").
Boutan was a pioneer in the field of underwater photography.
Source and information: Wikimedia
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