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On the other hand, many photographers and critics, starting with the earliest cases of photography, emphasized elements of photographic manufacturing that were taken to be unique to it and therefore not like painting. In announcing Daguerre’s invention to the French Academy of Sciences in 1839, François Arago emphasised the precision of the photographic image and its capability to allow its audience to see features of their world that they might otherwise be unable to see. During the nineteenth century, photographic practices developed to capture Art & Media moments and features of the world which might be fleeting. Eugène Atget, for …
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