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DAY 12 | HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY |
The First Photograph
“SMILE!”
Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765–1833) is credited with what is widely accepted as the first photograph, that is, a permanent photographic image as opposed to one that deteriorated shortly after creation or upon attempts at duplication.
Beginning in the late 1700s, Niepce experimented with various types of pre-photographic devices to record images, including lithography and an early chemical process known as photo-etching. Some of Niepce’s early photo-etchings have survived but are not considered photographs in the conventional sense. Niepce also experimented with the ...
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