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"[A] refreshing throwback. It is streamlined because it focuses on how photographs are made rather than what they look like....Besides charting changes in mainstream photographic technology from the daguerrotype to digital cameras, Spira' account introduces us to such curiosities as the Megelethoscope, a wooden forerunner of the ViewMaster, devised in the 1860s."Spira, S. F. is the author of 'History of Photography As Seen Through the Spira Collection', published 2001 under ISBN 9780893819538 and ISBN 0893819530.
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