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New research into some of the world’s oldest photographs which reside at the National Media Museum in Bradford, has revealed a previously undiscovered method of image making dating to the 1820s.

Recent technical analysis by scientists from the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles show three of the photographic plates created by the world’s first photographer, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (pictured), demonstrate a range of different photographic experiments.

All the plates, from the Museum’s Royal Photographic Society Collection, were previously believed to have been created using the same method, however the ground-breaking research shows one of the plates illustrated Niépce’s skill in copying prints of the day and included deep etching, done by the photographer, to enhance the original image. Continue reading