Texts and Reflections on Heliography – Project 1827-2027
From heliography to AI-generated images.
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...