The world's first photograph, the famous "window view" by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, will be exactly two hundred years old in 2026. To mark the occasion, the Dresden Technology Collections are showing pictures by artist Thomas Bachler, who has been working intensively on the photographic process used at the time for many years.
Heliography - or "sun drawing" in German - is a technique that is as variable as it is time-consuming, in which the image is created on a metal plate coated with asphalt under the influence of strong light. Heliographic images from the series "A Glass of Water" and heliographic intaglio prints from the series "Gestalten" can be seen in the small exhibition.
