Signal A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 5, 2026

Two Hundred Years of Photography, Counted From a Seventy-Two-Hour Exposure

Fisheye and France's Ministry of Culture have put out a 224-page special edition opening a thirteen-month bicentennial programme. Historian Dominique de Font-Réaulx writes on Niépce's 1827 view from Le Gras, and thirty original AFP press prints from 1945 to 1995 go up on Paris Metro platforms until January.

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Fisheye, 200 ans de photographie
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