Photographie

Photography was born in France in 1839, the date customarily given for is invention. The year marks the presentation by F. Arago to the Academy of Sciences of the daguerreotype of L. Daguerre, who had improved upon the invention of J.-N. Niépce, who died in 1833. Niépce had worked with Daguerre in 1829 to refine his method. Plus...