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Vincent Reboul
September 23, 2021
Cycling
In August 1826, Nicéphore Niépce, a 61-year-old Burgundian living in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes near Chalon-sur-Saône, tested one of these latest inventions and took the first photo in history. Daguerre will buy him or steal his patent, and that is why the first photos will be called daguerreotypes. The museum is very interesting to visit and relates the beginnings of photography to the present day.
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December 23, 2016
Cycling
Statue and nearby museum to Nicéphore Niépce (born Joseph Niépce; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833), a French inventor, now usually credited as the inventor of photography and a …
Assisipilger
July 9, 2018
Cycling
Chalon is known as the birthplace of photography (heliography). The city's most famous citizen is Joseph Nicéphore Nièpce, for whose invention there is a museum on the Quay des Messageries containing more than 2 million photographs and many artifacts, cameras and other equipment from the history of photography.
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