The world's first photograph by Joseph Niepce. Taken from a window of his Le Gras estate at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, it was produced by exposing a bitumen-coated pewter plate in a camera ...

Actually, the "first photograph" is a heliograph, or "sun drawing." And its rediscovery was officially announced in 1952, so it's not really news. Sorry. But many visitors to a new exhibition in Texas ...

In 1827, his prototype was used to take the first photograph ever, which captured the view out the window of his home at Le Gras in France. The image took Niépce at least eight hours to produce. In ...

What is believed to be the world's first ever photograph is set to go on display in Germany. The snap called View From The Window At Le Gras dates back to 1826. It was created by photographic pioneer ...

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 world's first photograph was clicked by French scientist Joseph Nicephore Niepce. Photography is both an art and science. It is science for the novice who needs rules and guidelines to master the ...

A trio of rare images “dating back to the genesis of photography” by the world’s first photographer are going on show 250 years after his birth. The images by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (7 ...

When the female photographer Janine Niépce first turned up at the factory floor in the early 1950s to take photos of the workers, they were quick to ask for “Mr Niépce, the photographer”. Assuming the ...