The invention of photography

The invention of photography

The invention of photography For his first experiments, Niépce placed sheets of paper coated with silver salts on the back of a camera obscura. It was known that silver salts (silver chloride) darkened when exposed to light. In May 1816, he succeeded in capturing the...
Transience

Transience

Transience in Analog and Digital Photography The digital reproduction of the first photograph, “View from the Window at Le Gras,” is widely available on the internet. The original image, captured by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in the summer of 1827, is difficult to...