print email comment close The First Photograph URL: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/ Description: Background about and image of the "First Photograph" taken in 1826 by Joesph Nicéphore Niépce. "Fascinated with the craze for the newly-invented art of lithography which swept over France in 1813, [Niépce] began his initial experiments by 1816," which included the use of light-sensitive varnish. He called the process "Heliography." Also includes images of reproductions of the photo. From the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Publisher: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin Extra Keywords Nicephore Niepce LII Database Information: Record 26955 created by Maria Brandt on 09/22/2008 Last modification on 04/30/2009 Published: 08/12/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26955