The first issue listed the topics…
Goal of the journal La Lumière. — Heliographic Society. Its statutes. Supporting documents. Meeting of artists in February 1848 at the Valentino hall. List of members of the Heliographic Society. Influence of Heliography on the fine arts. Destruction of the lower layers; elevation of the upper regions of art. Discovery of a bas-relief in the Acropolis of Athens by Mr. Baron Gros since his return to Paris.— New accelerating substance, communication made by Mr. Régnault, of the Academy of Sciences, to the Société héliographique. — Primitive times of Heliography. Letter from Mr. Niépce to Mr. Daguerre. Contract between Messrs. Niépce and Daguerre. Letter from Doctor Bauer of the Royal Society of London.
