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First Times / First Photos

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What is a first image? A proof? A test? An achievement? A failure? An event? A memento, or perhaps a spark? A playful and erudite journey through two hundred years of major and minor photographic innovations, this book is a collection of “firsts.” Snapshots, scoops, images that have never been seen before, unpublished photos, “front-page” pictures, the oldest image, and so on — these “firsts” are technical, aesthetic, scientific, and societal in nature, ranging from the first experiments conducted by photography’s pioneers to recent images of stars being born in the primordial universe, from t

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