Curated Content on Photography and Contemporary Art
A living guide to the exhibitions, festivals, and gatherings marking 200 years since the first permanent photograph. Light Turns Two Hundred Two hundred years ago, in a quiet upper room … Read more
Camera obscura history from Mozi and Ibn al-Haytham to Niépce’s pewter plate: how optics and chemistry prepared the first photograph.
View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras) is generally regarded as the earliest surviving photograph made with the aid of a camera obscura. Created … Read more