First photograph

The first photograph was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, titled View From a Window at Le Gras

He made the image by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.
A camera obscura is a darkened room or chamber in which the image of an object is received through a small opening or lens, and focused in natural colour onto a facing surface.