The End of Photography
The End of Photography From Heliography to Algorithmic Imagination This essay was developed through a dialogic thought process in collaboration with generative AI systems, particularly Anthropic's Claude AI and OpenAI's ChatGPT. The discussions on image, medium, and...
From heliography to AI-generated images.
From Heliography to AI-Generated Images Przemek Zajfert, October 2024The Oldest Surviving Photograph in the World: View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras)”The Oldest Surviving Photograph in the World In the late summer of 1827, after several...
The invention of photography
The invention of photographyFor his first experiments, Niépce placed sheets of paper coated with silver salts on the back of a camera obscura. It was known that silver salts (silver chloride) darkened when exposed to light. In May 1816, he succeeded in capturing the...
Transience
Transience in Analog and Digital PhotographyThe digital reproduction of the first photograph, “View from the Window at Le Gras,” is widely available on the internet. The original image, captured by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in the summer of 1827, is difficult to discern...