In 1829, Niépce partnered with Parisian painter Louis-Jacques-Mande Deguerre, hoping to reduce the long exposure time his previous invention required. A long exposure photo shows Muslim pilgrims ...

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 ...

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.

Today is World Photo Day, a day to celebrate some of the best and most important photos of all time. This photo, simply titled, "View from the Window at Le Gras," is said to be the world's earliest ...

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 ...

A CENTURY ago, on July 5, 1833, at the age of sixty-eight years, Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, the pioneer of photography, died near his birthplace, Chelon-sur-Sáne. Born on March 7, 1765, in good ...