“The stories behind 10 of the world's earliest known photographs”
(Written by Oscar Holland, CNN)
“As early cameras began spreading out from Europe in the middle of the 19th century, photography became an increasingly powerful medium for obtaining and disseminating information about the wider world.
People and places that had previously only been captured through art or in written accounts could suddenly be depicted with unprecedented accuracy. With this new medium, local administrators and commercial photography studios, in cities from Hong Kong to Calcutta, helped build a richer visual history of life in the 1800s.
Now, a new exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi has brought together 250 of the earliest known photographs from the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the oldest of which dates back to 1842. Titled "Photographs: An Early Album of the World," it's the first dedicated photography show to be held at the Emirati outpost of the famous French museum. (...)” (Lido em: CNN 2019-08-15)
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