Photography

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View from the Window at Le Gras is the oldest surviving camera photograph. It was created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, seen from a high window, made using a camera obscura. It was the result of an eight-hour exposure.
cover of The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot, the first photographic book, with 24 calotypes, London, 1844, PDF

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Literature

  • Publications on photography at Monoskop Log
  • http://www.jeudepaume.org/pdf/Photographisme_GB.pdf
  • Peter Galassi, Before Photography. Painting and the Invention of Photography, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
  • Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, The painted photograph, 1839-1914: origins, techniques, aspirations, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
  • Lynne Warren (ed.), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3 vols., New York & London: Routledge, 2006.
  • John Hannavy (ed.), Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, 2 vols., New York & London: Routledge, 2008.


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