the.com/niepce heliograph
the first photograph ever taken, and it took eight hours just to say hello.
means a hardened bitumen image fixed onto a pewter plate by joseph nicephore niepce around 1826-27, the earliest surviving permanent photograph made by a camera.
from niepce coated a plate with bitumen of judea, a substance that hardens when exposed to light, then aimed a camera obscura at the view from his window in burgundy, france, and waited roughly eight hours for the sun to do the etching.
real nameview from the window at le gras
exposure timeabout eight hours, some say days
rediscoveredfound in england in 1952, forgotten decades
current homekept at the university of texas austin
for instance
niepce daguerre partnership — 1829 deal that led to the daguerreotype after niepce died