Photography was invented in the early 1800s by a French artist named Joseph Nic?phore Ni?pce. Ni?pce was a painter and engraver who was interested in creating a way to capture and reproduce images. He experimented with a number of different techniques before finally settling on a process that involved coating a metal plate with a light-sensitive substance and then exposing it to light. This resulted in the first ever photograph, which Ni?pce called a heliograph.
