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  2. Nicéphore Niépce - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) [1] was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. [2] Niépce developed heliography , a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. [ 3 ]

  3. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started experimenting with a camera obscura and took a snapshot of the view outside his window. Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell took the world's first ...

  4. Heliography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras, by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1826 or 1827, France - Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin After his return from London concentrated on making camera images, which, aware of their commercial potential, he ambiguously called “points de vue” in his letters to his brother.

  5. Harry Ransom Center - Wikipedia

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    Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826, on permanent display in Harry Ransom Center's main lobby. Two prominent items in the Ransom Center's collections are a Gutenberg Bible, [18] [19] one of only 21 complete copies known to exist, and Nicéphore Niépce's c. 1826 View from the Window at Le Gras, the first successful permanent photograph from nature.

  6. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - Wikipedia

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  7. View from the Window at Le Gras - Wikipedia

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    Niépce captured the scene with a camera obscura projected onto a 16.2 cm × 20.2 cm (6.4 in × 8.0 in) pewter plate thinly coated with bitumen of Judea, a naturally occurring asphalt. [9] The bitumen hardened in the brightly lit areas, but in the dimly lit areas it remained soluble and could be washed away with a mixture of oil of lavender and ...

  8. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent photograph of a camera image was made in 1826 by Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris. [11]: 9–11 Niépce had been experimenting with ways to fix the images of a camera obscura since 1816. The photograph Niépce succeeded in creating shows the view from his window.

  9. List of French photographers - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), inventor of photography; O. Dani Olivier (born 1969) André Ostier (1906–1994) P. Gilles Peress (born 1946)