The First Photo of the Story of Nicéphore Niépce Returns to France for the Bicentenary
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The first cliché of history, taken by the French inventor and exhibited at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, USA, will be exhibited for the first time in France on the occasion of the bicentenary of
The first photograph kept so far will return to France for the first time since its realization two centuries ago. The image made by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce will be presented publicly at an exhibition organized at Chalon-sur-Saône, the city where the museum dedicated to the pioneer of the photograph is located.
The landscape on a tin plate was taken in 1827. It is considered "the oldest still existing photograph made with the help of an obscura camera", says the Ministry of Culture.
"Point de vue du Gras" will be visible from the end of April to the end of June 2027 as part of the exhibition "L-fingerprint by Helios. 1826-1827, Niépce invents photography!" at the museum dedicated to the father of photography in Chalon-sur-Saône.
This will be one of the major events of the bicentenary of photography which will include more than 1,000 events throughout France.
A time disappeared and then found, the tin plate on which Nicéphore Niépce managed to print a landscape two hundred years ago returns to the Hexagon. The "Point of view of the Gras", as enigmatic as inspired, will be visible for two months at the museum of Chalon-sur-Saône from April.
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