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200 years on, French pioneer remembered for creating world's first photograph / 36G433Q
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"The invention of photography happened here": from the first-floor window of a middle-class house in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes (Saône-et-Loire), near Châlon-sur-Saône, Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) took the world's very first photograph 200 years ago, on 16 September 1824 : ‘Le Point de vue du Gras’.
Niépce recounts the discovery in a letter to his brother Claude in , thus enabling the history of photography to be "rewritten", according to Pierre-Yves Mahé, who has transformed the house into a museum. While this very first photograph on stone has disappeared, probably reused after being polished because of the high cost of the format, another, taken from the same floor in 1827, is kept at the University of Texas in Austin. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES