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Book From 1909 Explains Why Photos From The Past Look Flawless

“in delivering finished work to your customers, you do not hand them the photographic negatives, but the prints made from these negatives.” It explained that in “the early days of photography prints were made directly from the negative without any alteration.”

This recently resurfaced instructional photography book from 1909 shows how retouching was already a thing before Instagram

The photographers used knives or pencils to etch and retouch negatives so that they made “thick necks made thin, excessive drapery removed, crooked noses straightened, hair added, backgrounds altered,” the book said [Via BoredPanda]

Image credits: American school of art and photography

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Installation Reveals the Metaphoric Power of a Single Book Distorting a Solid Brick Wall -  By Emma Taggart / My Modern Met

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The Best Milky Way Photographers of the Year Show the Beauty of Our Galaxy

Travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas is known for its spectacular imagery and it particularly loves to share how amazing the cosmos are through breathtaking Milky Way photos.

More photos: My Modern Met and Capture the Atlas

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Two Brothers Re-Create Childhood Photos As A Priceless Gift To Their Mother (via Then/Now)

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Infiniti QX56 “Yellow Submarine”

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1,400-Year-Old Chinese Ginkgo Tree Drops Leaves That Drown Buddhist Temple In A Yellow Ocean -  The ginkgo tree, also known as the maidenhair, is sometimes referred to as a “living fossil” because, despite all the drastic climate changes, it has remained unchanged for more than 200 million years. It is a living link to the times when the dinosaurs ruled the earth. [Via Bored Panda]

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We may think that modern technology is very powerful, but the reality is that whatever we manage to build and create is temporary and Mother Nature proves this to us at every opportunity. And it never hesitates to take over as soon as we turn our backs, showing us who is the real king of the castle. -  Bright Side

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This striking view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet.

Juno took the three images used to produce this color-enhanced view on Feb. 12, 2019, between 9:59 a.m. PST (12:59 p.m. EST) and 10:39 a.m. PST (1:39 p.m. EST), as the spacecraft performed its 17th science pass of Jupiter. At the time the images were taken, the spacecraft was between 16,700 miles (26,900 kilometers) and 59,300 miles (95,400 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, above a southern latitude spanning from about 40 to 74 degrees.

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill