PHOTO: © Wolfgang Vollmer

Vernissage: Blick aus dem Fenster

In the organizer's words:

Opening: 3.6.2025, 6 pm

Opening hours: Thu - Sun, 3-6 pm

4.6.-21.6.2025

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View from the window

200 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

The history:

Nicephore Niépce had been experimenting with fixing images produced by the camera obscura on his Le Gras estate in the village of Saint-Loup-de-Varennes south of Chalon-sur-Saone in Burgundy(la Bourgogne) for some time. In the early fall of 1826, he took the world's first light-resistant photograph (known today), a view from the window of his study under the roof with an exposure time of eight hours. He used a 16.5×21 cm metal plate with a coating of light-sensitive asphalt, a chemical substance. This hardened when exposed to light and thus captured the image. Niépce called his process heliography.

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Wolfgang Bous

Lisa Busche

Igor Chepikov

Anne Cichos

Dan Dryer

Gesine Grundmann

Fabian Hochscheid

Andreas Keil

Stefan Kieß

Jens Eike Krüger

Fietse Nowitzki

Hanno Otten

Julia Pabst

Uta Rings

Frank Schaefer

Stoffel

Vildan We

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Location

KunstWerk Köln e. V. Deutz-Mülheimer Straße 115 51063 Köln

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