For most, retirement is a time for rest, but for Saji Ennakkad, a retired Kerala State Electricity Board senior ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A CENTURY ago, on July 5, 1833, at the age of sixty-eight years, Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, the pioneer of photography, died near his birthplace, Chelon-sur-Sáne. Born on March 7, 1765, in good ...

It was the Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti, about 2,500 years ago, who first described the optical phenomenon he called a "collecting place." Light passing through a tiny hole in the wall of a darkened room ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words. But if you know what to look for these days, a picture also could be worth a thousand bucks. Within the realm of collectibles, few items possess more appeal ...

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 ...