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A photograph is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor. The process and practice of creating such images is called photo
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A modern-day photograph of an Icelandic landscape, captured on a personal camera
The Market Square of Helsinki, in the 1890s
Long-exposure photograph of the Very Large Telescope
View from the Window at Le Gras is the oldest surviving photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce between June 4 and July 18, 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows pa
Photograph
…lithograph, serigraph, or photograph—or to the event itself, as in "she took a photograph", even before the image has been printed or viewed. History View from the Window at Le Gras (1826 or 1827), by Nicéphore Niépce, the earliest known surviving photograph of a real-world scene, made with a camera obscura. Original (left) and…
The original plate, showing rooftops visible from a second-story bedroom window
Demonstration of camera obscura. The original image gets rotated and reversed through a small hole onto an opposite surface.
Gernsheim's enhanced version
The original plate on display at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, in 2004