Image: View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, uncompressed UMN source

Description: Enhanced version by the Swiss, Helmut Gersheim (1913-1995) performed ca. 1952 of Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin) the first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. Captured on 20 × 25 cm oil-treated bitumen. Due to the 8-hour exposure, the buildings are illuminated by the sun from both right and left.
Title: View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, uncompressed UMN source
Credit: Rebecca A. Moss,Director of Visual Resources and Digital Content Lab, via email. College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology University of Minnesota http://www.arthist.umn.edu/vrcinfo/
Author: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
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