Photography

The photo that I decided to use is precisely the "first photograph" taken in the history: the subject about that "each photograph and its history”, here applies as that the same photograph its too the story.

This photograph was taken by Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce, French, chemist, lithographer and amateur scientist and inventor, born in Burgundy in 1765 and died in 1833. He was (almost inadvertently) a pioneer in the invention of photography.

Niépce was interested in the reproduction of images, this justifies his work in lithography (a type of engraving), where he made copies of works of art using drawings. His experiments consisted in the use of resins and their effects when exposed directly to the sunlight.

The success of this photograph and the idea of capturing an image aroud it, is not really aroud a real photograph, but rather, it is a “heliography”, that was a direct images (a positive) obtained on emulsified surfaces with different materials.

He didn’t really draw, he just prepared the engravings; then, in the absence of a drawer, he had the idea of use a "camera obscura", a tool used by painters to project images in situ on their canvases and, in a certain way, trace them; He used this technique, with another light-sensitive salts on a surface, to try to get still images.

Finally, Niépce became the first to get a permanent image. This happened between 1826 and 1827 when he achieved to capture an image of the yard of his house.