Heliography, A sunny afternoon in May 2018 in Paris, Unique

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Heliography, A sunny afternoon in May 2018 in Paris, Rue-Saint-Dominique
The internegative was exposed in September 2024.
Dimensions: Heliography: approximately 10 x 14.5 cm. The heliography is mounted on a passe-partout cardboard measuring 14×19 cm and packaged in an A5 box.
Material: Aluminum sheet, Bitume de Judée, lavender oil
Method of production: Heliography made according to the method of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce from 1822,
Edition: Unique, signed and dated

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Using the technique of heliography, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photograph in history that has been preserved to this day: View from the Window at Le Gras, in the summer of 1827.

In May 2018, an image was captured at 121 Rue-Saint-Dominique in Paris using a camera mounted on the roof of a Google car, which later served as the basis for my heliograph depicted here.

In September 2024, I photographed a section of this image with a large-format 4×5-inch camera. The resulting photograph was then transferred onto an aluminum plate coated with an asphalt emulsion using sunlight—entirely in keeping with Niépce’s original description of the heliography technique.