Who took the photo?

Answer 1

Many historians believe it was a Frenchman named Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826, using a process called the heliograph to take a photo of a scene from nature. Other sources note the work of another French innovator, Jacques Louis Daguerre, who perfected a different way to take a photograph, circa 1839; it came to be known as the daguerrotype process.