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* David Bate, ''Photography: The Key Concepts'', London: Berg, 2009.  
 
* David Bate, ''Photography: The Key Concepts'', London: Berg, 2009.  
 
* Stephen Bull, ''Photography'', New York & London: Routledge, 2010.
 
* Stephen Bull, ''Photography'', New York & London: Routledge, 2010.
* Liz Wells (ed.), ''Photography: A Critical Introduction'', 4th edition, London:  
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* Liz Wells (ed.), ''Photography: A Critical Introduction'', 4th edition, London: Routledge 2010.
Routledge 2010.
 
  
 
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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

Pages

Literature

Hudson, 2004.

  • Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History, London: Laurence King, 2006.
  • 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.
  • David Bate, Photography: The Key Concepts, London: Berg, 2009.
  • Stephen Bull, Photography, New York & London: Routledge, 2010.
  • Liz Wells (ed.), Photography: A Critical Introduction, 4th edition, London: Routledge 2010.