Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras” (1826), known as the world's earliest surviving photograph, is to be shown in Mannheim at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, the museum announced to the press on Monday. Housed normally in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, the photograph was last exhibited in Europe on 1961. Niépce’s tin plate photograph will be show as part of the exhibition “The Birth of Photography: Milestones from the Gernsheim Collection,” opening on Septemper 9.
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras” (1826)
