why isnt there a recent photo of Abraham Lincoln?

His assassination in April of 1865 might have something to do with it.

See, color wasn't invented until the late thirties. Before that, the world was in black and white, and in some parts, it was in brown and white. When the change happened, paintings turned to color because the compounds that were used to color the paints also underwent transformation. Old photographs appear not to have changed to color, but actually they have. They are simply a color photograph of a world that is black and white, so they appear to be black and white as well. It took a while for color to spread around the world, and that's why you still see black and white well into the sixties.

That's why there's no full color Lincoln pics.

The inventor of the motion picture, Thomas Edison, was called the Wizard of Menlo Park. Little do many people know, he was called that because he actually was a wizard. While he was working on the light bulb, he ran an electrical current through an unknown substance, which brought him back in time where (when, I should say) he ran into Abraham Lincoln. Being from New Jersey, Edison was a brash, crude man, and Lincoln didn't like the cut of his jib. They had a few scuffles, and became nemeses. It was at this time that Edison was putting his finishing touches on his motion picture machine, and his hatred of Lincoln was so great that he put a hex on him. He was cursed never to be photographed for a moving picture, and soon after the Civil War this Wizard returned to his own time.

That's why there's no video of Honest Abe.

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He is notoriously camera shy.

Although his current address is known (the rather macabre sounding "Lincoln's Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois"), nobody's seen him out and about for quite a long time. There'll be a lot of money in it (and considerable fame) for the photographer that gets a good, current picture.

They haven't invented a camera yet that takes a decent photograph of a ghost.

Once technology catches up we'll be seeing great pictures of Abraham Lincoln. Elvis Presley will be a particularly popular subject for this new technology.

Yea, there were plenty of video cameras out and about in the 19th century.

This is either a poor joke, or you win the award for the dumbest question on YA today.

steve

Because he died in 1865. Unlikely to be any "recent" photographs of him really is there.

have you looked at a penny lately? HELLO!!! That's not a painting!!

because he died a long time ago.

p.s are you for real?

Because he is buried here.

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