Nicéphore Niépce

Background

A French inventor.

Contribution

Produced the earliest surviving camera photograph (a heliograph, c. 1826–1827) using a light-sensitive bitumen plate.

Associated inventions

• Photography

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Louis Daguerre
• William Henry Fox Talbot

Sources & further reading

Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — history of photographyThe Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum
• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia

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