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The First Photograph in History In 1826 Ad

The world’s first permanent photograph was taken by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1826 or 1827. The image was captured from the window of his house in the village of Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, near Chalon-sur-Saône, France.

The photograph, titled "View from the Window at Le Gras," was created using a technique Niépce called heliography. He used a metal plate coated with bitumen of Judea, a light-sensitive substance. The exposure time was extremely long—estimated between 8 hours and several days, due to the low sensitivity of the material.

The image shows a simple courtyard scene with surrounding buildings. Though lacking in detail by today’s standards, it is considered the first successful attempt to capture and fix an image using light, marking the true beginning of photography.

The original photograph is preserved today at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

This image holds historical importance as it paved the way for the development of photographic techniques such as the daguerreotype in 1839, making it the first real step toward documenting the world through the camera.