It's not much on the face of it -- merely a view from a window -- but it's the first example of its medium that we have, though it is often described by a term different from the one we use today. What is it, who created it and when (and how long did it take), and where is it now? Reference site with illustration strongly encouraged.

TabbyTom

The first photograph was taken by Nicéphore Niepce in 1826 from the window of his house at Gras, near Châlons-sur-Saone in France. A plate was made sensitive to light by coating it in something called “bitumen of Judea” and exposed in a camera obscura for about eight hours. It was then developed by washing it in a mixture of oil of lavender and white petroleum. The photograph is now in the Gernsheim Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. (Source: New Shell Book of Firsts) http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp Mar 23 06, 5:58 PM

lanfranco

Lovely, TT, and the Austin site is perfect. Niepce's "heliograph" represents a landmark moment in the intersection of art history and technology, though Niepce's later partner Daguerre is much better known to history. Mar 23 06, 6:04 PM

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