En 1816, un an avant l'expiration du brevet du pyréolophore, Claude s’exile à Paris, puis en Angleterre en 1817, pour chercher à exploiter l'invention du moteur. Nicéphore entreprend seul de nouvelles ...

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

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 19th century's photography revolution was a total game-changer. Suddenly, people could capture and preserve images of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, 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 ...