Nicéphore Niépce ( 1765 –1833)

Nicéphore Niépce ( 1765 –1833) 

He was a French inventor, now usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825. In 1826 or 1827, he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene.

JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE 

The first picture which is known to us with an eight hour exposure and the insistence of Niepce.

The view from the window of his laboratory. 1826

JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE

The second known to us picture by Niepce. Captured in 1829. The original was lost during its transfer for restoration in the beginning of the 19th century