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Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (born 1765)
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Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor (1765–1833)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. In the mid-1820s, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
View from the Window at Le Gras
Oldest surviving camera photograph
View from the Window at Le Gras is the oldest surviving photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce sometime between 1826 and 1827 in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, as seen…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)