Photography at 200: the art form that abandoned chemistry
2026 marks the bicentenary of Nicéphore Niépce’s first permanent photograph. Today, with two trillion digital images taken a year globally, it is hard to remember that photography was built on chemistry. We look at how specialist chemical engineering was disrupted by an emergent general-purpose technology
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