@ocean
Cool story. Might be off by a year. And the day is definitely uncertain.
https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/niepce-heliograph/

A lovely backstory, well worth the read: https://medium.com/airbnbmag/the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-first-photograph-277285f2d78a

https://cool.culturalheritage.org/byorg/abbey/an/an26/an26-3/an26-307.html
#photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #history #histodons

@ocean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce#/media/File:Ni%C3%A9pce_Heliograph_1827_Le_Gras.jpg

More accurate

@ocean This is cool! I also want to add, that the history behind this technology (camera obscura) is way older than 200y, the earliest signs of it’s influence and the intentional recordings with light are from nearly 500 BC!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura