Sunday, 23. November 2003
Topic: PHOTO - on November 23, 2003 at 2:07:08 AM CET
First photograph sits for own portrait
An 1826 image widely acknowledged as the world’s earliest photograph is the subject of its own close-up, the first in the half-century since a historian hauled the faint snapshot out of an old trunk. The fresh portrait of the first photo was unveiled Friday during an Austin, Texas, symposium celebrating the life and work of pioneer photographer Joseph Nicephore Niepce.
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