The first ever recorded photograph

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s photographic process was publicly announced in August 1839, which is commonly considered the birth of photography. However, it should be noted that Nicéphore Niépce, a fellow Frenchman, had already succeeded in capturing images using a camera obscura a decade earlier.

Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and pioneer in photography. He is credited with creating the world’s first photograph in 1827, using a process he called “heliography”. The heliography process involves creating a direct positive image on a polished metal plate (usually…