Conscientious Photography Journal

View from the Window at Le Gras, 1826 or 1827, the earliest surviving camera photograph. Original plate and colorized reoriented enhancement . Wilhelm Homberg described how light darkened some chemical substances in 1694. The fiction book Giphantie, published in 1760, by French writer Tiphaigne de la Roche, described what may be interpreted as pictures. Photography is the results of combining several technical discoveries, referring to seeing a picture and capturing the picture.