AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHS
View from the Window at Gras - Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1827
This is the very first photograph ever taken. The scientist Nicéphore
Niépce (1765-1833) was enthralled by the burgeoning craze for
Lithography and decided to place polished pewter plates coated with a
light sensitive chemical called bitumen of Judea inside a camera
obscura. Niépce took this famous picture from his house in
Saône-et-Loire. The exposure took eight hours. Once the plate was
removed from the camera he used a mixture of lavender oil and white
petroleum to develop the image.
This is the very first photograph ever taken. The scientist Nicéphore
Niépce (1765-1833) was enthralled by the burgeoning craze for
Lithography and decided to place polished pewter plates coated with a
light sensitive chemical called bitumen of Judea inside a camera
obscura. Niépce took this famous picture from his house in
Saône-et-Loire. The exposure took eight hours. Once the plate was
removed from the camera he used a mixture of lavender oil and white
petroleum to develop the image. 
The very first ever photograph? Wow. and these days people take thousands of them every day with their phones.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely incredible!!
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Donna
That was awesome - 8 hours. Some people - where do they get their ideas from?
ReplyDeleteI've read the history of photography, it's fascinating, as are all those early photos. A far cry from what we have now.
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