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Capturing the light: the photography adventure in Haute-Provence
Culture · Monday, October 26 · 09:00 · Digne-les-Bains
2 rue du Trélus, 04 000 Digne-les-Bains
Free
At the crossroads of optics and chemistry, the invention of photography is the culmination of a long research process aimed at capturing light to fix an image. The first photograph in 1826 is only a step in the development and diffusion of this technique, up to the digital photography revolution, marking the ubiquity of images in our lives. From 1856, photographs were taken in the Basses-Alpes. What do the pioneers of this technique, now an art, immortalize? What images do we want to fix and communicate? Discover portraits, landscapes, i…
