The image, titledView from the Window at Le Gras, shows some roofs and the neighboring countryside.
By looking at further evidence, it may just turn out that photography is already 200 years old.
French photography publicationReponses Photoproposeslooking at Niepce’s earliest successful attempts.
“View from the Window at Le Gras,” original plate (1826-1827) (Photo: Nicéphore Niépce viaWikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 4.0)
Aiming for a specific date, the magazine suggests September 16, 1824 as the day photography was invented.
But why this date of 1824 precisely?
Nicéphore Niépce. (Photo: Musée Nicéphore Niépce viaWikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Colorized reoriented enhancement of “View from the Window at Le Gras” (Photo: Nicéphore Niépce viaWikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 4.0)
