In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first known photographic image using the camera obscura. The camera obscura was a tool used by artists to draw.
Joseph Nicephore Niepce's Heliograph Photography
Simulation of the oldest known photograph in the world.
Joseph Nicephore Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they were called were the prototype for the modern photograph.
The oldest known photograph in the world of a 17th century Flemish engraving, made by the French inventor Nicephore Niepce in 1825, with an heliography technical process.
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