![]() Niépce's associate Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced and commercially viable photographic process. In the mid-1820s, Nicéphore Niépce first managed to fix an image that was captured with a camera, but at least eight hours or even several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. His experiments did produce detailed photograms, but Wedgwood and his associate Humphry Davy found no way to fix these images. Around 1800, Thomas Wedgwood made the first reliably documented, although unsuccessful attempt at capturing camera images in permanent form. ![]() There are no artifacts or descriptions that indicate any attempt to capture images with light sensitive materials prior to the 18th century.Īround 1717, Johann Heinrich Schulze captured cut-out letters on a bottle of a light-sensitive slurry, but he apparently never thought of making the results durable. The history of photography began in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles: camera obscura image projection and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. Original (left) & colorized reoriented enhancement (right). ![]() View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. ![]()
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