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‘Remember Me’ Highlights Black Americans’ Self-Expression in Early Photography
The exhibition of around 70 historical photographs opens at the National Gallery of Art in November. In our era of screens and proliferous imagery, it strains the imagination to comprehend a time before photography. Two centuries ago, an inventor named Nicéphore Niépce took the...
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Two centuries ago, an inventor named Nicéphore Niépce took the very first picture of his courtyard in France by fitting a pewter plate into a camera obscura.