AS far as anybody knows he made the first actual photographs. Niepce invented photography. Only the english potter Wedgewood preceded him noticing how salts darkened through lights action, a process that interested him because he wanted to be able to transfer designs to pottery, but he wasn’t able to fix the results. Thus Niepce was first, followed by several other people before Daguerre. In 1835 Fox Talbot “invented the negative/positive Calotype process that enabled the photograph to be reproduced, thus preceeding Daguerre by several years.
Niepce and Daguerre’s processes on solid bases were positive processes , the daguerrotypes were on copper, and so because they were not transparent, each remained unique
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.