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projektfu
The opening line was funny, because the Wall Street Journal famously had no photos long into the color photo era of newspapers. When did they add them? Sometime in the late 90s/2000s?

Then again, financial news doesn't really lend itself to photojournalism. A photo isn't going to make the story of a bankruptcy or merger more believable. The rest of the media would show an exasperated trader on the day of a market crash, but at the level of traders some will benefit from a bull market and others will benefit from a bear. So it's just pointless showing the photo.

I always liked the hand drawings of people referred to in the stories.

yubblegum
Any French sleuths in the house that can geolocate that street? There is partial visibility of the signage for a chocolate factory. (Just curious.)

p.s. AI assisted search to the rescue: "The factory visible in the photo was located in the 11th arrondissement, near the intersection of rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt and rue du Faubourg-du-Temple."

link has pic of the same location today: https://marinaamaral.substack.com/p/the-first-photo-of-an-in...

sudb
Am I right in thinking that the picture provided with the blog post is the actual photo and not the inked engraving?
asdefghyk
My first immediate thought when I saw the title "...first photo published in a newspaper..." was to image a newspaper photo with obvious dots or their proper name "Halftones"

A few googles reveal much detail about the process including that it was used up to 1990s

cubefox
> The published image was likely an inked engraving from the original photograph.

Unfortunately the site has no picture of the published newspaper print of the engraving of the photograph.

hotsauceror
"It would be difficult for modern readers to accept the text-only version of a newspaper."

I can think of few things that would give me more pleasure. Perhaps I am not sufficiently "modern."