According to history, Frenchman Louis Daguerre is credited to have invented the first examples of photography. But there is a part of the story which few people know about the invention of photography by Daguerre.
Louis Daguerre worked for years with images and he managed to capture images but they withered away with time. Then Daguerre heard about and Italian potter who created his pots and put images on them but those images were not painted and didn’t wither away with time. That potter was Joseph Nicephore Niepce.
So Daguerre went to Italy in order to meet with this unknown potter.
Long before the first public announcements of photographic processes by Louis Daguerre in 1839, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, began experimenting with photography.
In the summer of 1826, after nearly 20 years of experimenting with different forms, Niépce set up a lens containment, placed within it a polished pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea (an asphalt derivative of petroleum containing nitrates), and uncapped the lens. After at least a day-long exposure of eight hours, the plate was removed and the latent image of the view from the window was rendered visible by washing it with a mixture of oil of lavender and white petroleum which dissolved away the parts of the bitumen which had not been hardened by light.
So who is the Father of Photography?... Louis Daguerre got the credit for what he learned off Joseph Niépce.
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The oldest surviving photograph actually dates back to 1827
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http://www.niepce.com/home-us.html
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