I TRUST you will kindly allow me space for a few lines on the subject of some rare specimens connected with the History of Photography, now in the possession of Madame Niepce de St. Victor ...

There are many milestones on the road to modern science, but few equal the summer afternoon in 1826 when French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765–1833) captured the first permanent image. Niepce, ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Nicephore Niepce. He is thought of as the father of photography for he took the first photograph in 1826.

French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt ...