Painters invented photography?

In the text Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, he states that photography was NOT invented by painters just because of the framing, perspective and camera obscurer. Rather it was the chemist who determined that the light and rays "emitted a variously lighted object." Barthes also speaks of color and how it is an artifice just like a cosmetic, it's not needed but rather an accessory. Depending on the photo, i feel that black and white photos look way better than colored photos. Since the invention of color, black and white is more rare and has an out dated feel to it, but it can bring more meaning and emphasis to an image because of the lack of color making the photograph much stronger. Barthes talks alot about the past and the future and about being there where the photograph was taken, "the photograph does not call up the past,….. photography offers an immediate presence to the world,. a co-presence,…..at once the past and the real." I feel that i agree with what he says, a photograph is a captured moment of the past to keep as a reminder, being co-presence.