Opening: 3.6.2025, 6 pm
Opening hours: Thu - Sun, 3-6 pm
4.6.-21.6.2025
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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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