# Who is the oldest photographed person?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-photographed-person/430443>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 18, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-photographed-person/430443 "2007-12-18T07:30:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![petew83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@petew83](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petew83)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-photographed-person/430443/1 "2007-12-18T07:30:39Z")

</div>

Who is the oldest person photographed? I’m curious to see how people look at extremely old age.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-photographed-person/430443/2 "2007-12-18T07:37:51Z")

</div>

Bunch of old people here:

[http://www.grg.org/CalmentMen.html](http://www.grg.org/CalmentMen.html)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-photographed-person/430443/3 "2007-12-18T07:43:04Z")

</div>

[seniorjournal.com](http://seniorjournal.com/SeniorStats.htm) has numerous articles and pictures, but I’d like to point out that a vital 112 year-old might not look nearly as old as a decrepit 85 year-old, so age alone isn’t the best indicator.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Eurograff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Eurograff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eurograff)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-photographed-person/430443/4 "2007-12-18T11:16:47Z")

</div>

And since you asked who is the oldest person photographed, from the same site as above, here is a photo gallery of Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever lived:

[http://www.grg.org/JCalmentGallery.htm](http://www.grg.org/JCalmentGallery.htm)

They took quite a lot of pictures of her when she was over 120, just search around.