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How Wet Plate Collodion Opened the Sky for Photography

On a summer afternoon in the mid‑19th century, a photographer in the field might be racing the clock—glass plate in hand, chemicals ready, light fading—knowing that once the collodion dried,

Nadar and the Birth of Aerial Photography

High above Paris, suspended beneath a silk balloon and swaying gently in the wind, Gaspard‑Félix Tournachon, known to the world as Nadar, did something no one had ever done before.

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