The First Wine And Art Show

The first photo is in Austin at The Harry Ransom Center of U.T., as most artists here know. It is an unimpressive eight-hour + exposure of bitumen of judea (an asphalt derivative of petroleum) on a pewter plate loaded into a camera obscura looking out the window of Joseph Nicephore Niepce's in either 1826-1827 in France. Niepce called his invention "heliography," or sun-drawing. "View from the Window at Le Gras" is the world's ealiest sucessful photograph from nature.

But few know cavemen made and experienced art too cool. They noticed the light shinning through the tunnel of their cave throwing an image on the wall and outlined it in charcoal. Using berry juice for color, they drank some of it fermented and invited their friends over to view and party. Thus, the first wine and art shows.

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