Picture: View from the window at Le Gras, France
It ain’t much, but look how far we’ve come. This is a reproduction of the first ‘official’ photo, taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. As the caption states, this was the view out of his window. The world was not ‘blown away’ by this new media as we might have expected, seeing as how he failed to garner the interest of the Royal Society. Maybe it was the poor composition and lack of details in the shadows. Read all about it, and see how it all started.
PS: Some have suggested that photography was done hundreds of years earlier, using a camera obscura to create the Shroud of Turin. Of course, these maybe some of the same people that think aliens landed at Roswell, and that airplane contrails are actually a chemical conspiracy. Ok; well, … maybe.
