“The First known surviving Photo produced in camera” also called “View of the Window at Le Gras”, by Niépce 1826.
This is generally considered the First Photo ever made in most of the book about History of Photography. There are many studies about that photo and specially about its re-discovery by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim in 1952, that I can’t sum up here.
The image we normally know (the 4°) is far from the original on bitumen of Judea (the 1°, color digital print reproduction made in June 2002). Helmut Gernsheim draw the latent image on a paper to make it visible and than, on a reproduction made in gelatin silver print, in collaboration with the Kodak Laboratory, he spent two days painting in watercolor small dots as pointillism style to enforce the image. The last image is a “computer image depicting the original scene “because of an arrangement the Niepce’s house/museum has with a well-known photo agency, photography is not allowed inside the house.” Sometimes a copy become more known than the original.
© The Ransom Center / Gernsheim Collection http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2003/firstphotograph.html
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