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In photography, toning is a method of altering the colour of black-and-white photographs. In analog photography, it is a chemical process carried out on metal salt-based prints, such as silver prints, iron-based prints, or platinum or palladium prints. This darkroom process cannot be performed with a colour photograph.
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During the 1870s, the Brighton photographer Harry Pointer (1822-1889) became well known for a series of carte de visite photographs which featured his pet cats.
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The unrecognised genius of the world of photography Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was in the shadow of his popular colleagues. He formed an artistic style that combined the aesthetics of an intimate, unexpectedly captured moment, especially characteristic of female portraits. His muses were the most beautiful women, including the photographer’s three…
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Indecent (erotic) photograph from Paris 1890s and photo of Joan Blondell, it was banned in the US in 1932 for obscenity.
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According to legend, the Codex was written in just one night by a monk condemned to be walled up alive, with the help of the devil. However, researchers believe that the work took at least 25 years.
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THE highest praise — supposedly praise — which is ever applied to a print, is, that it does not look like a photograph, meaning the ordinary, hard, retouched reproduction, which people in general are accustomed to see. It is this latter thing, which the public have had so long as…
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