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Oldest Photo

NPR
Published April 6, 2002 at 11:00 PM CST

In 1826, Frenchman Nicephore Niepce took what's considered to be the world's oldest photograph. Now that picture has been sent for analysis to the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. Jacki talks to Dusan Stulik, a senior scientist at the Getty, about the image and its creator.

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