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The dark chamber the camera obscura The Dark Chamber, the Camera Obscura. This strange magic may have been known and exploited even by our Paleolithic ancestors.

Aristotle,

Ibn Al-Hitham, Leonardo da Vinci,

all in their own way explored the mysteries and workings

of that strange magic. In the 19th century the first

ghostly images start to appear and the term photography is coined.

And with this new power we are confronted

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