#thefirstphoto

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Went back and watched the "Welcome to Campaign 4" video (which I probably should've done before actually watching Campaign 4) and holy shit, welcome back Corky from Bound (1996)

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“The First known surviving Photo produced in camera” also called “View of the Window at Le Gras”, by Niépce 1826. 

This is generally considered the First Photo ever made in most of the book about History of Photography. There are many studies about that photo and specially about its re-discovery by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim in 1952, that I can’t sum up here. 

The image we normally know (the 4°) is far from the original on bitumen of Judea (the 1°, color digital print reproduction made in June 2002). Helmut Gernsheim draw the latent image on a paper to make it visible and than, on a reproduction made in gelatin silver print, in collaboration with the Kodak Laboratory, he spent two days painting in watercolor small dots as pointillism style to enforce the image. The last image is a “computer image depicting the original scene “because of an arrangement the Niepce’s house/museum has with a well-known photo agency, photography is not allowed inside the house.” Sometimes a copy become more known than the original.

© The Ransom Center / Gernsheim Collection  http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2003/firstphotograph.html

 more info: http://nonsite.org/feature/the-miracle-of-analogy

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The intriguing story of the “Damned Leaf” until now considered the First surviving Photo.

Since 2008, when the photo appeared at the Sothebys’ auction, the photo was dated 1790 and credited to Thomas Wedgwood, one of the Photography pioneer inventor. 

The Leaf, firstly sold at Sotheby’s in London in 1984 for £6,000 by the Bright family from Bristol, become the object of incredible speculation in 2008 when in another auction was considered The First Photo ever made: the 170-year-old image could be worth millions of pounds. 

After years of silent and denied conference by Sotheby’s, in June 2015, during the conference “Rethinking Early Photography”, Larry Schaaf, the most expert historian in early photography, just debunked the fake myth of the First Photo attributing it to Sara Anne Bright, 1839.   

Until proven Otherwise / On the Evidence of the First Photos is still looking for the First Photo ever made, or better the first surviving photo; and is going to interview professor Larry Schaaf,.

The video of full conference:  http://www.rethinkingphotography.com/conference-videos/