There are many milestones on the road to modern science, but few equal the summer afternoon in 1826 when French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765–1833) captured the first permanent image. Niepce, ...

French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt ...

Today, most of us walk around with an incredibly powerful camera in our pockets. We don’t think twice about taking photographs of our world, from our pets to beautiful landscapes to our family ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Nicephore Niepce. He is thought of as the father of photography for he took the first photograph in 1826.