On August 19th, the world photography day is celebrated, a fundamental tool for the imagery record of our society. If, on the one hand, photography is the protagonist in dialogues that involve architecture and the city, portraying historical moments and enhancing buildings, on the other hand, it guides us through the context and backstage of the moment, eternalizing the process.
The first image recorded on paper was produced by Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, a French inventor born in 1765 who was interested in Leonardo Da Vinci's teachings on the methods and effects of the camera obscura. At the beginning of the 19th century, after several painters and draughtsmen used the inverted image resulting from the camera obscura to reproduce reality in their drawings, The inventions and discoveries related to the Industrial Revolution made it possible to fix an image projected from this tool on paper or metal. At the beginning of the 19th century, using a wooden box pointed towards the garden and a chemically treated paper, Niepce managed to print the image of his backyard on the sheet, resulting in what is considered to be the first photograph in history – which had as its main object the architecture of a residential garden.
