Photography

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An inverted photograph from F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson, "A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1920): 291-333, p 332.
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.
The brothers Ianachia (1878–1954) and Milton Manachia (1882–1964) were pioneers of photography and cinema in the Balkans.
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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