The world's first photograph by Joseph Niepce. Taken from a window of his Le Gras estate at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, it was produced by exposing a bitumen-coated pewter plate in a camera ...

It might look like an abstract field of faded hues, but this is the oldest photograph ever taken. More accurately, it’s the first photograph from “nature” taken, as its creator Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ...

The first camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1827, his prototype was used to take the first photograph ever, which captured the view out the window of his home at Le ...

Wilhelm Röntgen, “Hand with Rings,” a print of one of the first X-ray photographs (shows the left hand of Röntgen’s wife, Anna Bertha Ludwig) (December 22, 1895), albumen photograph (courtesy Röntgen ...

An 1826 image widely acknowledged as the world’s earliest photograph is the subject of its own close-up, the first in the half-century since a historian hauled the faint snapshot out of an old trunk.