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Going out: the best of what’s on this weekend

Edit The Irish Times 17 Jun 2016
Music Books. Various venues, Dundalk. Also Saturday. louthcms.org. Louth Contemporary Music Society has a reputation for ambitious programming and this short festival is no exception. Five books of  music will be performed by musicians of an international calibre. Tonight, Saltarello tackle John Zorn’s Book of Angels, with French soprano Hélène Fauchere performing Onute Narbutaite’s Heliography ... An extraordinary selection of music ... ....

Through history’s lens

Edit The Hindu 10 Feb 2016
In the year 1826, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce leaned over a window at his estate in the Burgundy region of France to create the first ever photograph. The image was captured through a technique known as heliography. Almost 200 years later, photographer and archivist Aditya Arya is trying to keep the historic processes of photography alive ... The collection belongs to a friend of his family, the renowned photographer Kulwant Roy ... ....

VI. The Art of Telautomatics

Edit Minds 29 Oct 2015
At the age of 63 Tesla tells the story of his creative life. . First published in 1919 in the Electrical Experimenter magazine ... When I am all but used up I simply do as the darkies, who "naturally fall asleep while white folks worry." ... The truth is this ... It was an obvious application of the new agent and accomplished with the old classical and unimproved induction coil - scarcely anything more than another kind of heliography ... Prof ... ....

It's #World Photography Day just click it

Edit The Examiner 19 Aug 2015
Just what we need in this era of selfies, Instagram, and all the social media sites where people post pictures of themselves, their travels, families, friends and for goodness sakes even fetuses growing in the womb (no joke a woman posted this on Facebook recently) ... In 1826, Nicèphore Nièpce captured the earliest known permanent photograph known as 'View from the Window at Le Gras' using a process called Heliography ... ....

See three of the earliest 'photographs' ever taken

Edit The Independent 06 Mar 2015
A trio of rare images “dating back to the genesis of photography” by the world’s first photographer are going on show 250 years after his birth ... Niépce called his images “heliographs” from the Greek helios meaning “drawing with the sun” ... Drawn By Light exhibition ... The discovery of Niépce’s heliography process re-wrote photography history when it was established by the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Media Museum in 2010 ... ....
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