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  Enciclopedia :: encyclopedia : Joseph Nicephore Niepce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (Cahlon-sur-Saône, 7 marzo 1765 - Saint-Loup-de-Varenne, 5 luglio 1833), ricercatore e fotografo francese.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce nasce a Cahlon-sur-Saône da famiglia ricca e borghese.
Dopo aver pensato di votarsi al sacerdozio e aver fatto parte delle armate rivoluzionarie, inizia ad interessarsi, col fratello Claude, ai fenomeni della luce e della camera oscura.
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 Lighting Handbook - History of lighting Timeline.
A painting by the Englishman Joseph Wright in 1771 shows Hennig on his knees praying, while his dark laboratory is illuminated by the eerie glow of phosphorus, contained in a glass vessel.
In 1826, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a French lithographer used a small camera obscura to capture an eight hour exposure on a sensitized sheet of pewter.
Joseph J. Thompson, (British) investigated the properties of cathode rays under the influence of magnetism and electrically charged plates.
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 Joseph Nicéphore Niepce
In 1826 he produced the first known photograph, which he called a heliograph, using bitumen of Judea (a form of asphalt) on on a pewter plate.
, who perfected the process after the death of Niepce.
Related content from HighBeam Research on: Joseph Nicéphore Niepce
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 Adventures in CyberSound: The Camera Obscura
One must really read through some of the entries to get a real feel for what this bibliography is all about.
Photography as it is known today originated in the early 19th century when Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce managed to fix a crude image on a pewter plate.
Yet its origins reach far beyond Niepce and back to the dawn of human awareness.
www.acmi.net.au /AIC/CAMERA_OBSCURA.html   (6727 words)

  
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Connect to Marriott Library's Online Catalog for additional information about the Photograph and Audio-Visual collections.
This online exhibition examines the first photograph, taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826.
Photograph America Newsletter is a 12-page travel newsletter for photographers, published bi-monthly since 1989.
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