Even if you hadn’t blinked 33,600,000 times (the average amount of human blinks per year over eight years) from way back until now, you still would have missed the following marvel of human ...

The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1827, his prototype was used to take the first photograph ever, which captured the view out the window of his home at Le ...

An 1826 image widely acknowledged as the world’s earliest photograph is the subject of its own close-up, the first in the half-century since a historian hauled the faint snapshot out of an old trunk.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce pioneered the "heliograph" technique, which literally means drawing with sun. To mark what would have been his 250th birthday, the three images will go on show at the National ...

The first photograph was made by French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce after years of experimenting to produce a permanent image from a camera. Within a century, millions of people owned cameras.

In 1827, Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce placed a metal plate coated in a strange chemical in the window of his country home. The concoction baked in the sun for eight hours, creating a hazy image ...

Photography has come a long way since the first ever photo saw the light of day. We've gone from painstakingly exposing metal ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Historians seem to agree that the first photographic images were created ...

In 1827, French scientist Joseph Nicephore Niepce developed the first photographic image with a camera obscura Sharjah: Though 10th century Arab scholar Ibn Al Haytham is generally credited for the ...

THERE is an error in one of your “Notes” of last week which you may be glad to have corrected. It is not to Niepce de St. Victor that the citizens of Chalons-sur ...