The First Photograph: Scientific Analysis

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12 жыл бұрын

In June 2002, the world's first photograph, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's "View from the Window at Le Gras" (1826), arrived at the Getty Conservation Institute for scientific analysis. Is the first example of a permanent image created by exposing a photosensitive plate in a camera-like device. Niépce's work is part of the photographic collection of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
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@Chubachus 12 жыл бұрын

I thought it should be labeled the "worlds first surviving photograph" since there could have been other experimental ones before it that didnt turn out as well and were trashed

@EternaResplandiente Жыл бұрын

Would be cool if there was a an imagine of the American Revolutionary War, or further in the past, a picture of Elizabeth Bathory in 1599 in her study, or maybe even an ancient image of Romans at the Statue of Zeus 😮

@TheStockwell 3 ай бұрын

Unless someone comes up with an earlier photograph, this can continue to be called the world's first. Best wishes from Vermont ❄️

@tessacavaliere1665 2 ай бұрын

@@EternaResplandientewhen he said earlier he meant like 1824 not 1500s😂

@SunSmogBackup Ай бұрын

There actually were older photographs but they weren’t permanent and would immediately turn black when met with light so they could only be viewed in dark rooms or whatever the equivalent of the time was. Sadly we can’t see any of these older ones because of that

@cypeapplejuice 11 жыл бұрын

There were many photographs prior to Niépce, it's possible that Caravaggio was using a mercury based technique to make a temporary picture on his canvas as early as the 16th Cent. Photographs weren't novel by Niépce's time, but they weren't permanent. Niépce actually made many other photographic reproductions, from before the Window at Le Gras. The window shot is only significant because it is the first shot from nature to be fixed permanently, but there are earlier fixed repro-images too.

@2ndEndingVintage 4 жыл бұрын

True - but, arguably, can one consider a 'photograph' a 'photograph' if the image was not permanent ? I think this is why this is called 'the first photograph'. Because while, as you state, the process existed earlier, this was the first (known/recorded) time the product actually was a permanent image. So IMHO fair to call it the 'first photograph'.

@michael32A 2 ай бұрын

We're getting into the realms of Philosophy here, but it's an interesting idea: I have taken photos on a digital camera, and stored them on a drive that's become corrupted. As they've proven not to be 'permanent', were they ever photos? This image and William Henry Fox-Talbot's first negative taken at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England, have both aged and deteriorated with time, so... Why can we not say earlier images that didn't stand the test of time as well be called photographs too?🤔

@Hector_Malot 3 жыл бұрын

this photo should be held at the Niepce museum in Chalon and not in the United States

@TheStockwell Ай бұрын

When the photograph was discovered in the 1950s, no-one in France was interested in buying and preserving it as a French cultural treasure. So, it wound up in Austin, Texas. Best wishes from Vermont 🍁

@gabrielagraneros8141 5 жыл бұрын

What a great work....!!!!! Thanks!!!!!

@357lockdown 10 ай бұрын

Was I the only one creeped out by that music?

@bodgertime 4 жыл бұрын

Daguerre had a technique that is still unmatched. Mercury fumes are a little toxic

@anzaeria Ай бұрын

Apparently, the exposure time was eight hours on a sunny day.

@Geck_Gxng 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@a1abaodonaldvictorp.690 7 жыл бұрын

0:46 the tree at the top left looks like Hadgrid

@porkrindsmcsnacky 2 ай бұрын

Hey ur right

@pheminismisshit4571 5 жыл бұрын

the method used by Joseph Niepce was Heliography which is kind of phospherous material & use of sunlight to capture the image. Until Daguerre came into picture.

@2ndEndingVintage 4 жыл бұрын

Two better vids explaining/demonstrating the actual process are these: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/paenftGhvc_SimQ.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n613hsqi2tzTZp8.html

@TheStockwell Ай бұрын

No offense intended but Nicéphore Niépce used a type of powdered asphalt, lavender oil, and mineral spirits. Best wishes from Vermont

@2ndEndingVintage 4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, not a very informative clip :( You didn't really give us teh results of the analysis at all. People would wanna know how Niepce actually created this, I would think that would be an explanation provided by a vid entitled what you entitled it....

@TheStockwell 3 ай бұрын

Take a look at the information beginning 15 minutes into this presentation at the Royal Society: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7qBiKVmq6vIdHk.htmlfeature=shared Best wishes from Vermont ❄️

@guillermoperezsantos 4 жыл бұрын

And now 8 year later, film photo is growing again, a lot of young people is bored of digital photo, unless made with the celphones.

@yuantronz45 Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in Afr.....never mind. Cleopatra was black ehem...ehem.

@sajiennakkad6404 3 жыл бұрын

Sir, This is to point out some arbitrary comments running around regarding the history of photography. 'View from the window at Le Grass.' , the world's first successful photograph was born through the hands of the French scientist Joseph Niecephor Niepce. His contributions to photography and the sacrifices he had made for its development are crucial to the history of photography. People who have neither studied the history of photography nor read about the personalities behind its development, making irresponsible comments on social media has become recent trend. A photographer called O.P. from Agra declaring August 19 as World Photography Day is an example of such ignorance. In 'Photography', the first book on the history of photography, Lady Elizabeth Eastlake calls August 19 as the day of treachery in the history of photography.

@TheStockwell 2 жыл бұрын

The day of treachery in the history of photography? I'm confused. Could you please be a bit more specific regarding what you're bitching about? 🧐