Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. View from the Window at Le Gras (La cour du domaine du Gras) was the first successful permanent photograph, created by Nicephore Niepce in 1826 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. Niepce captured the photo with a camera obscura focused onto a sheet of 20 x 25 cm oil-treated bitumen. As a result of the 8-hour exposure, sunlight illuminates the buildings on both sides. After an unsuccessful trip to Britain to attempt to interest the Royal Society in the process, Niepce gave the photo to the botanist Francis Bauer. It was last publicly exhibited in 1898, and was thereafter forgotten. Helmut Gernsheim brought the photo to prominence again in 1952 and the Eastman Kodak Company made a copy.

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