Joseph Nicephore Niepce was born in 1765
in Chalon-sur-Saone, France. This French man was from a middle class society,
he used to both teach and serve under the military before returning home in
1801, where he began his love for science and started to work on many
innovations and new experiments together with his brother Claude.
In 1793 the two of them came across the
idea of reproducing an image via the use of light, photography was not Joseph’s
best field so he progressed at a very slow pace, however his first
experimentation began properly in 1816. The brother’s main interest was the
improvement of his own creation, the Pyreolophore which was a combustion engine; this was used produced to fit a small model boat,
which the brothers used to promote.
Joseph experimented with lithography this
resulted with him inventing the heliography most due by his disadvantage in not
knowing how to draw images by hand. To produce his heliography Niepes used
solutions such as the bitumen of Judea to obtain the best results.
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| The First Photograph |
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| View from the window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicephore Niepce |
In
1827 Niepce had managed to gather all the components together to create his
first photograph, which took an exposure of 8 hours. This image was taken from
a window in the upper floor and it resulted in a positive picture on a pewter
showing the view outside of the country, just as seen from the window.
HARRY
RANSON CENTER. Joseph Nicephore Niepce. [online]
[Accessed 22 October 2013].
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