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View from the Window at Le Gras — Niépce’s photograph, the oldest that survives
A view of the roofs and courtyard of a Burgundian estate, taken on a pewter plate through an upstairs window, with an exposure the sources put at several hours. It is the oldest surviving image produced by a photographic process. (Editorial synthesis)
View from the Window at Le Gras was published around 1827. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
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