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View From the Window at Le Gras
Heliograph
By Nicéphore Niépce, 1827.
Said to be an eight hour exposure on a pewter plate coated with bitumen.
Courtesy of the Gernsheim Collection, the University of Texas at Austin
“Among the relics exhibited is the first photograph, fixed from nature in 1827. This is a
camera photograph upon tin...dated Kew, 8th December 1827.
I am sorry to say that this is little or nothing but a blank plate. When it came into my possission ten years ago the image was plainly visible.” --Henry P. Robinson, 1894
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