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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce : 1826 or 1827

The world's first photograph. Taken from a window of his Le Gras home; bitumen on tin plate, with an eight hour exposure time.

"Above the bed in my tokyo apartment hangs a poster nearly one metre wide hangs the image taken by Niecpe at Saint-Loup" - Daido Moriyama