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1838 PHOTOGRAPHY TAKES LEAP FORWARD BY STAYING STILL

Louis Daguerre may not have been the first man to capture an image, but his process signalled the birth of a revolution to make photography practical...

Since the advent of digital cameras, it has never been easier to make a record of a specific time and place by taking a photograph, if not dozens. More snaps are taken on the average night-out today than on the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.

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BBC History Revealed Magazine
August 2015
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