Heliography Photography

Heliography is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as an early photographic and photochemical image-making process associated with Niépce. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.

Basic facts
MovementHeliography
Photographers1

Overview

An early photographic and photochemical image-making process associated with Niépce.

Photographers

🇫🇷FR1765–1833
Nicéphore Niépce
Invention & Technique
Invention & TechniqueHeliography

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was born in 1765 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy, France.

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