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A Moment of Triumph
Photograph/Buzz Aldrin Image Source: NASA This story was originally published in October 2014. This photograph of astronaut Neil Armstrong was shot on 20 July 1969 by crewmate Buzz Aldrin, after they...
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The Magic Kamra
This 1658 painting titled The Milkmaid was done by Johannes Vermeer—one of the greatest Dutch painters who was rumoured to have used the camera obscura for his paintings. Image Source: Wikimedia...
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Let There Be… Flash!
Shot indoors, in the illumination of flash powder, this is one of many of Jacob’s photographs that documented life and culture in New York, in the late 1800s. Photograph/Jacob Riis The flash has...
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A Sequential Record of Madness
Photograph/Albert Londe Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published in November 2014. Since the ancient times till about the early 20th century, did you know that hysteria was...
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Up, Up and Away!
Taken from a camera suspended on a kite, six weeks after the 1906 San Francisco fire and earthquake, this image is one of the most famous aerial photographs. Photograph/George Lawrence Ambarin Afsar...
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Projecting the Past
This sketch depicts a Magic Lantern show from the 1890s, where a projector was used to entertain an audience.. Source: www.thequietus.com Chandni Gajria traces the past and uncovers some interesting...
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The Ultimate Sacrifice
Photograph by: Arthur Barrett. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This story was originally published in January 2015. The annals of the history of human rights movements are filled with stories of...
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The Lightning War
Photograph/Dickenson V Alley Image Source: Wikimedia Commons This article was originally published in June 2016. Nikola Tesla, inventor and engineer extraordinaire, devoted his career to the fields of...
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Photographing Life and Beyond
Captain Albert King, Chief of X-ray Service, makes a fluoroscope of a patient’s chest at the US Army Station Hospital in India. Ambarin Afsar explores the various applications of photography in the...
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Prevalence of Hope Over Despair
Photograph/Ansel Adams This story was originally published in July 2015. Captured by the renowned American photographer Ansel Adams, this photograph shows female captives practicing the art of...
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Giambattista della Porta Improved Camera Obscura
Giambattista della Porta was an Italian polymath, scholar and playwright, who is most famous for his text titled Magiae Naturalis (Natural Magic). He is also known to be the person who perfected the...
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The First Photograph of a Total Solar Eclipse
Photograph/Johann Berkowski. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons On July 28, 1851, Julius Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia made the earliest scientifically useful photograph of a...
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The Beginnings of Wildlife Imagery in National Geographic
Photograph/George Shiras III and Image Source/Wikimedia Commons This story was originally published in June 2016. Over a century ago, when George Shiras III began using the flashlight-trapping...
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An Optic Breakthrough
The invention of the daguerreotype was followed by a great interest by many to further develop optic work, and to reduce exposure time. Charles Chevalier, a French optician and microscope maker...
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Gustave Le Gray’s Enthralling Seascapes
Photograph/Gustave Le Gray Image source: Wikipedia Commons Gustave Le Gray took up photography in 1847 and quickly gained acclaim for his mesmerising seascapes. At a time when each exposure required...
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The Story Behind: Dreamy, Moody and Ethereal
Photograph /Edward Steichen and Image Source/The J Paul Getty Museum This article was originally published in May 2016. Edward Steichen photographed The Pond-Moonlight in 1904, in the wetlands around...
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The First Astronomical Photograph
Perched in the rooftop observatory of the New York University, John W Draper created the earliest surviving daguerreotype of the moon. He achieved the feat with a 5-inch reflecting telescope. It was...
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A View that Lasts
Nicéphore Niépce’s interest in lithography (but lack of artistic ability) lead him to grow fixated with creating a permanent image by using the camera obscura. In letters dated to 1816, Niépce...
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Iconic, But No Real Impact?
Photograph/Dorothea Lange; Image Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection This story was originally published in July 2011. Famous photojournalist Dorothea...
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Timothy H O’Sullivan’s Documentation of America
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Photograph/Timothy H O’Sullivan Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Timothy H O’Sullivan was 15 when he began his photography career under the mentorship of...
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