March 7, 2011 /Photography News/ Born 248 years ago today, on March 7, 1765, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor, most noted for producing the world's first known photograph in 1825.
By the age of thirty, Niépce had been a professor at an Oratorian
college, a staff officer in the French army, and the Administrator of
the district of Nice, France. In 1795, Niepce resigned from his
position as administrator of Nice to returned to Chalon-sur-Saône
--his birthplace-- and pursue research with his brother Claude.
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