World Photography Day, Kodachrome, and 2017's 'Anonymous Project'

World Photography Day, Kodachrome, and 2017's 'Anonymous Project'

In 1826, a French scientist by the name of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce sat down at the precipice of a century’s worth of developing chemistry and optics. The table at his family’s country home pointed out over fields, fences and adjoining brickwork. It was here that he took the first reported photograph in existence. It was titled ‘View from the Window at Le Gras’. He soon wrote to his brother Claude, “I must say, my dear friend, [it] truly has some…