The World's First Photograph
View from the window at Gras (also
known as the World’s First Photograph), 1 heliograph on pewter plate by Joseph
Nicéphore Niépce, measuring 16 x 20 cm. It represents the view of the courtyard
of Niépce's house at Gras, France, taken from the window of his workroom. On the
left side of the image is the pigeon-house (an upper loft in the Niépce family
house), to the right of it is a pear-tree with a patch of sky showing through an
opening in the branches. In the center of the image is the slanting roof of the
barn; the long building behind it is the bake house, with chimney. On the right
side of the image is another wing of the house. The plate was exposed for
approximately eight hours resulting in the appearance of shadows on opposite
sides of the courtyard.
(from "Record
Detail" Harry Ransom Research
Center, UT Austin)
"THE ROOM"
"Scientific Analysis of World's First Photograph"
"Results
of Scientific Study on the First Photograph"