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Camera Obscura by William Henry Fox Talbot — VisualArtsDB

Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura

William Henry Fox Talbot

1840

Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: 16.9 x 11.1 cm (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 in.)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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