✨AI Reimagines the Masters✨ Joseph Nicephore Niepce|154/1000

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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography [1]. He was born on March 7, 1765, in Chalon-sur-Saône, France, and passed away on July 5, 1833, in the same city [1].

Biography:

Early life: Niépce was born into a wealthy family, and his older brother Claude was his collaborator in research and invention [1].

Military career: Niépce served as a staff officer in the French army under Napoleon but had to resign due to ill health. He then married Agnes Romero and became the Administrator of the district of Nice in post-revolutionary France [1].

Scientific research: Niépce and his brother returned to their family's estates in Chalon in 1801 to continue their scientific research. They managed the family estate as independent gentlemen-farmers while pursuing their experiments [1].

Achievements:

Photography: Niépce is known for developing heliography, a technique used to create the world's oldest surviving photographic image. In 1825, he made a print from a photoengraved printing plate, known as "View from the Window at Le Gras" [1].

Oldest surviving photograph: In 1826 or 1827, Niépce used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene, which captured the view from a window in his house [1].