Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ( 1765 – 1833 ):

He was a French researcher who obteined the first photographic images, the procedure used was called Heliography.

He made two different kind of images:

Heliogravures which were reproductios  of engravings of that time and Point of views, which were captured directty from natural images, both taken by the camera.

The first photography preserved "Point of view from the window of grass, 1827".

Heliogravure

Point of view