Karla King
PGY2101C – Week 1 Questions
01/14/2022
According to a definition provided by (Merriam-Webster.com, 2022), to invent something means
“to produce something, such as a useful device or process for the first time through the use of the
imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment (Merriam-Webster, n.d., Definition 1). In
terms of photography and based on this definition, I believe Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is the true
founder of photography. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person who had the original
concept and idea. Joseph was a French inventor and responsible for taking the world’s earliest
photograph. He invented a surface that was light sensitive, and this formed as photography’s
basic principle. If Niépce had not created this light sensitive surface, photography would not
