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Nicephore Niepce
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Photography Pioneer
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French inventor who made the earliest surviving photograph, the View from the Window at Le Gras, a pewter-plate heliograph exposed at his estate around 1826 or 1827. He later partnered with Louis Daguerre, and died before their work became the daguerreotype.
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Defining ContributionThe earliest surviving photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, circa 1826 to 1827 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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