I found this lecture really interesting as it introduced topics to me that I have little knowledge on and presented them in a timeline that allowed me to piece together the history up until where we are now. What stood out to me was the introduction to the Bauhaus. Admittedly, I had only really heard of the Bauhaus and pretended to know what it was when it was brought up in conversation. I discovered that I was already familiar with someone of the work from the design school and that I really like it. I also found it interesting that they produced furniture in order to fund the art school. Learning about the early history of the photograph was also extremely interesting. I wasn’t aware of photographs existing as early as 1830. The photographs, or Heliographs are fascinating. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took the first photograph titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family’s house in the country. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill. It’s crazy to me how far the technology has advanced since then. Overall I’m really excited to delve deeper into the subjects introduced.