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1 week agoCandid New York: George Bradford Brainerd's pioneering early work in pictures
Daguerreotypes are cherished for their eerie clarity, like this one from the 1840s. Unfortunately, achieving such detail required agonizingly long exposure times, from 15 minutes to half an hour, depending on lighting. This required subjects to sit motionless for long periods of time, and various props were employed to keep sitters still and avoid motion blur Photograph: The Brooklyn Museum Brainerd's spy camera', a box-form
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