"During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable."

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Source : Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.168, MIT Press

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