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Article: Joseph Nicephore Niepce 1765-1833. (inventor of the method to fix a photograph image)
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- PSA Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 1992
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Portrait of a Great Photographer
While many inventive men had experimented with the photograph, solving the mystery of fixing the camera image had eluded them until the success of Joseph. Nicephore Niepce.
Niepce came from a wealthy French family in the city of Chalon, France. He was educated for the Catholic Priesthood and for a period of time was an instructor at the seminary. Niepce joined the French military in 1791 and served in Italy until he contracted typhoid fever in 1794. He retired to Nice, where he married and became active in local politics.
Niepce and his brother, Claude, two years his senior, were inventors with some degree of ...