Photography Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/photography/ Mechanically-minded travel Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:24:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 200th Anniversary of the World’s First Photograph to be Celebrated in France https://mechtraveller.com/2026/01/200th-anniversary-of-the-worlds-first-photograph-to-be-celebrated-in-france/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/01/200th-anniversary-of-the-worlds-first-photograph-to-be-celebrated-in-france/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:22:13 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12604 The French Ministry of Culture has announced a nationwide festival of photography in 2026 to mark the 200th anniversary of the world’s first permanent photograph recorded by Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce. Niépce’s photograph, ‘View from the window at Le Gras’ dated between 1826-1827 was taken from his study window on his estate in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes in Burgundy. […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/01/200th-anniversary-of-the-worlds-first-photograph-to-be-celebrated-in-france/feed/ 0 Review: Musée Lumière, Lyon https://mechtraveller.com/2017/12/review-muse-lumire-lyon/ https://mechtraveller.com/2017/12/review-muse-lumire-lyon/#comments Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:30:37 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=2851 It’s hard to get a grasp on just how significant the Lumière brothers were to cinematography, how tirelessly creative, and what astonishingly brilliant engineers they were. A visit to their spectacular family home in Lyons certainly helps. Auguste and Louis Lumière were the firstborn sons of Charles-Antoine Lumière, a photographic plate manufacturer. They went to […]

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