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a blurry rooftop in france, and suddenly photography exists.
means the oldest surviving photograph, taken by joseph nicephore niepce around 1826-1827 from his window in burgundy.
from niepce coated a pewter plate with bitumen of judea and exposed it in a camera obscura for hours, maybe days, aimed out his workshop window at le gras estate, fixing an image chemically for the first time in history.
exposure timelikely several days, not a snapshot
rediscoveredfound in 1952, misfiled for decades
processheliography, sunlight hardening bitumen on pewter
homelives at university of texas at austin
for instance
niepce heliograph — the actual pewter plate, 1826-1827, texas
daguerre boulevard du temple — 1838, first photo with a person in it
talbot latticed window — 1835, earliest surviving photographic negative