France Celebrates the Bicentennial of Photography with Traveling Themed Exhibitions
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In our era of digital screens and virtually endless images and videos, it’s a challenge to imagine the time before photography existed. Two centuries ago this year, French inventor Nicéphore Niépce successfully captured the first known permanent image. He called his new process héliographie, or “sun writing,” employing light-sensitive bitumen dissolved in lavender oil, which he used to coat a polished pewter plate.
After exposing the plate on his windowsill for several
After exposing the plate on his windowsill for several
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