Photo De Paul Foulquié
A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitivity, photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a charge-coupled device, CCD or a active pixel sensor, CMOS chip. Most photographs are now created using a smartphone/camera, which uses a photographic lens, lens to focus the scene's visible spectrum, visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. Etymology The word ''photograph'' was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek language, Greek φῶς ('':el:phos, phos''), meaning "light," and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing," together meaning "drawing with light." History The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the Bitumen of Judea, bitumen-based "heliography" process develope ...
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Nicéphore Niépce Oldest Photograph 1825
Nicéphore may refer to: *Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833), French inventor, most noted as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in the field *Nicéphore Soglo Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo (born November 29, 1934) is a Beninese politician who was Prime Minister of Benin from 1990 to 1991 and President from 1991 to 1996. He was Mayor of Cotonou from 2003 to 2015. Soglo was married to Rosine Vieyra Soglo, ... (born 1934), Beninese politician who was Prime Minister of Benin 1990–1991 and President 1991–1996 * St-Nicéphore, Quebec, former municipality that has become a sector of Drummondville in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec See also * Nikephoros (other) {{disambiguation ...
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