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Niepce is recognized for the discovery of the first viable photographic process - using the power of light alone to make a plate from which an image can be printed.
Both Niepce's account of the process and the image "represent a historic discovery and a moment in the annals of science," Sotheby's said in a statement.
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http://www.nandotimes.com/entertainm...-2711946c.html
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Philippe Garner of Sotheby's said: "This image and its accompanying correspondence oblige us to rewrite those crucial first stages of the history of photography."
It was previously thought he produced the first permanent photograph in 1826.
Niepce created his photo of an engraving using a technique called heliography, where light is used to project an image on to a photo-sensitive surface.
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_497301.html
In the case of the image posted by UT, that is the plate itself, and in the case of the image posted by me, the image was made from a similar "photographic" plate created earlier. If we say that an image made from a photographic "negative" or "positive" image is not a photograph but a "print" of a "negative" then, I think we've all been calling prints "photographs" for centuries. What makes it a photograph is how the image is created.