View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Niepce Poster

The First Photograph Presented here is the first permanent photographic image, created by Joseph Nicphore by taking a picture out of his window in Le Gras, France, in either 1826 or 1827. The original image was left in England at the time and provides the basis for this careful restoration that was undertaken in the 1950's. Ironically, the first permanent photograph is of of nothing more grandiose than the out-buildings of Niepce's heavily mortgaged estate.