Photography: The Early Years
World’s First Photograph
A thorough and fascinating read recaps the early days of photography. For example, this grainy picture called “View from the Window at Le Gras” (circa 1826), taken and developed by French photographer pioneer Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is the first known photograph ever taken. He called this process “heliography” or sun drawing, and like the sun it took a long time: recorded exposure time: 8 hours. Interestingly, the first Daguerreotype is also featured in photography’s early days which appeared on the EA on October 21.
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