# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicephore-niepce
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:27:11.442Z

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name: "Nicéphore Niépce"
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description: "He pointed a primitive camera at a real-world scene in the mid-1820s and captured the oldest photograph that still exists — the first fixed image pulled from light itself."
tagline: "French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)"
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birthDate: "1765-03-07"
deathDate: "1833-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was born in France on 7 March 1765. He developed heliography, a technique that produced the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. With his older brother Claude, he conceived and built the Pyréolophore, one of the first internal combustion engines. But it was the camera work that outlasted him: sometime in the mid-1820s, he used a crude apparatus to make the oldest surviving photograph of a real-world scene, fixing onto a surface what had only ever been fleeting. He died on 5 July 1833, decades before the medium he pioneered would reshape how the world saw itself.