Background
Joseph Nicephore Niepce was born in 1765 in Chalon-sur- Saône, France.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
1800
Statue in Chalon-sur-Saone, Joseph Nicephore's home-town.
1818
28 Quai des Messageries, 71100 Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Draisienne built by Niépce, Musée Nicéphore Niépce.
1825
One of the three earliest known photographic artifacts, created by Nicéphore Niépce.
1826
Le Cardinal d’Amboise
1827
Un Clair de Lune
1827
Christ Carrying his Cross
1891
Portrait of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
1899
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
2000
St.loup de Varennes, France
Camera of Nicephore Niepce
2000
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Niépce's birthplace at
Nicéphore Niépce
Joseph-Nicephore Niepce
Nicéphore Niépce, whilst still unknown and poor, in Charles Chevalier's optical and instruments shop.
Chromolithograph by Chereau showing Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and the nephew of Joseph Niepce, Claude-Felix-Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor.
Statue of Nicephore Niepce
Joseph Nicephore Niepce was born in 1765 in Chalon-sur- Saône, France.
Niepce served in the French Army under Na¬poleon Bonaparte, but after being dismissed due to ill health he returned home and spent the rest of his life doing research.
In 1807 the brothers Niepce invented the Pyreolophore, an early version of a piston-and-cylinder internal-combustion engine. Joseph began experimenting with the then new process of lithography in 1813 and by 1816 made his first photographic experiments in a process he named "heliography," or sun-drawing. In 1822 he began working with bitumen of Judea, a substance which hardens when exposed to light, and in 1826 produced the first surviving permanent photograph - a view from the window of his house. That same year he also invented the first photo-mechanical reproduction process. Niepce began a collaboration with Daguerre in 1829 but didn't live to see the further advances of his work.
