The first permanent photograph in history. View from the Window at Le Gras; the photograph was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826-1827.

In case someone else was curious, it took at most 20 years for the first pornographic photograph.

From Wikipedia: "The oldest surviving image of a pornographic photo is dated back to about 1846, described as to depict "a rather solemn man gingerly inserting his penis into the vagina of an equally solemn and middle-aged woman"."

From wikipedia:

View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras) is the oldest surviving photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce between June 4 and July 18, 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras [fr], as seen from a high window. The image was created by heliography, a process which Niépce had invented around 1822, and which uses the hardening of bitumen in light to record an image after washing off the remaining unhardened material.

I knew old cameras needed a long exposure, but an entire year?!

Niepce is ill treated by history. People who know a bit remember Daguerre, because of the daguerreotype, but Niepce is the first one to develop the process.

There's a nice museum in his birthplace in Châlons sur Saône for those interested, and geologically suited.

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