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Summary

Nicéphore Niépce: View from the Window at Le Gras

Author

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Photographer



Description	French physicist, engineer and inventor
Date of birth/death	7 March 1765	5 July 1833
Location of birth/death	Chalon-sur-Saône	Saint-Loup-de-Varennes
Authority file	: Q188342 VIAF: 44321125 ISNI: 0000000083775266 ULAN: 500054905 LCCN: n50030105 NLA: 35669427 WorldCat

Title

French:

Point de vue du Gras

Object type

photograph / heliography

Genre

landscape photography

Description

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: Point de vue du Gras

العربية: نسخة مُطوَّرة ومُحسَّنة للسويسري هلموت گارشيم (1913–1995)، التُقطت حواليسنة 1952، نقلًا عن الأصل الخاصَّة بِصورة نسيفور نيبس المعروفة باسم منظر من النافذة في لو اگرا، (مركز هاري رانسوم للأبحاث الإنسانيَّة، جامعة تكساس، أوستن) منظر من النافذة في لو اگرا، أوَّل صورة فوتوغرافيَّة ناجحة التُقطت من قِبل جوزف نسيفور نيپس سنة 1827، في سان لو دو ڤارنيه (سون ولوار، بورغندي، فرنسا). التُقطت على قار مُعالج بالزيت يبلغ حجمه 20×25 سنتيمترات. نتيجة تعرُّضها للضوء طيلة ثماني ساعات، فإنَّ المباني تُنيرها الشمس من على اليمين واليسار فقط.

Français : Nicéphore Niépce (1827). Vue de la fenêtre du domaine du Gras, à Saint-Loup-de-Varennes (Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France). Première photographie permanente jamais réalisée.

English: Enhanced version by the Swiss Helmut Gersheim (1913–1995), performed ca. 1952, of Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin)View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes (Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France). Captured on 20×25 cm oil-treated bitumen. Due to the 8-hour exposure, the buildings are illuminated by the sun from both right and left.

Deutsch: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1827): Blick aus dem Arbeitszimmer in Le Gras. 20×25 cm auf ölbehandeltem Asphalt. Durch die 8-stündige Belichtungszeit erscheinen die Gebäude sowohl rechter- als auch linkerhand sonnenbeschienen. Dieses Foto gilt allgemein als erstes der Welt.

Español: Vista de Le Gras desde una ventana primera fotografía permanente tomada con éxito por Nicéphore Niépce en 1827, Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. 20×25 cm. Precisó de ocho horas de exposición.

Magyar: A Kilátás a dolgozószobából a legrégebbi fennmaradt fotográfia, melyet Nicéphore Niépce készített Saint-Loup-de-Varennes-ben (Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France), saját dolgozószobájának ablakából, feltehetően 1827 nyarán.

Русский: Вид из окна на Le Gras, первая из фотографий, созданная Нисефором Ньепсом в 1827 году, Сен-Лу-де-Варенн (Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France). Использовалась пластина, сделанная из сплава олова со свинцом и покрытая асфальтом. Размер 20 × 25. Из-за 8-часовой экспозиции, здания освещаются солнцем справа и слева.

Date

1827

Medium

heliography, pewter and bitumen

Dimensions

height: 16.7 cm (6.5 in)

; width: 20.3 cm (7.9 in)

; thickness: 0.1 cm (0 in)

Collection

Harry Ransom Center

	Native name	Harry Ransom Center
	Location	Austin
	Coordinates	30° 17′ 03.48″ N, 97° 44′ 28.32″ W
	Established	1957
	Website	https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
	Authority file	: Q5671855 VIAF: 127371353 ISNI: 0000000122878509 ULAN: 500306531 LCCN: n85181820 NLA: 35841939 WorldCat

Accession number

964:0000:0001 (Harry Ransom Center)

Object location

46° 44′ N, 4° 51′ E

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Place of creation

Saint-Loup-de-Varennes

References

100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time

Source

Rebecca A. Moss, Coordinator of Visual Resources and Digital Content Library, via email. College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology, University of Minnesota. http://www.dcl.umn.edu

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