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The discovery I have made and which I call Heliography, consists in reproducing spontaneously, by the action of light, with gradations of tints from black to white, the images received in the camera obscura.

Nicéphore Niépce

Light, in its state of composition and decomposition, has a chemical action on bodies. It is absorbed, it combines with them and communicates new properties to them.

Nicéphore Niépce

Nicéphore Niépce

Nicéphore Niépce

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Born: March 7, 1765

Died: July 5, 1833 (aged 68)

Bio: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process.

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