17 November 201017 November 2019
End of Anoxia for the Last Objects of the World’s Oldest Photo Lab
In summer 2010, the last objects of the world’s oldest photo lab are finally on view in the Niépce House after several months of anoxia — a process that consists in destroying worms and parasites contained in the wood by means of a vacuum, without interfering with future chemical analyses.
Partnership with ENSAM
Partnership with the Institut Image of ENSAM in Chalon sur Saône where were presented: – a 3D video displaying the internal mechanism of the Pyreolophore – a creation by Hadrien Duhamel (see the video) – the birth of the first camera: where, how and when the “baguier d’Isidore” (a little jewel case) was transformed into a camera thanks to the dismantling of the family’s solar microscope;
