Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Daguerre, Paris Boulevard
The haunting empty, yet evocative, image of "Paris Boulevard" by Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre shows both how far photography had come in a short time and how much farther the technology still had to advance. Read about the techniques he...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Early Photography: Niepce, Talbot and Muybridge
Photography is a controversial fine art medium, simply because it is difficult to classify-is it an art or a science? Nineteenth-century photographers struggled with this distinction, trying to reconcile aesthetics with improvements in...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: The First Photograph
An account of how Joseph Nicephore Niepce was able to use pewter plates to invent the first permanent photographic image in 1827.