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first permanent picture (contd.) |
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| • | Niepce then
washed the plate with lavender oil, which |
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| removed the
still-soft bitumen that hadn’t been struck by |
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| light, leaving
a permanent image. |
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| • | Niepce named
the process heliography - Greek, helios - “sun”, |
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| graphos - “drawing”. |
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| View from
the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1826 |