The earliest recorded image taken by photographic means, pictured here, was sold at Sotheby's in Paris on Thursday for the equivalent of US$443,220. The 1825 print by French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce was acquired by France's National Library.

图中为一幅最早藉由摄影工具所留下的影像纪录，此照片周四在巴黎苏富比拍卖会上以约四十四万三千两百廿美元成交。这幅由法国发明家尼布斯于一八二五年拍摄的照片，最后由法国国家图书馆得标。