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  2. Real image - Wikipedia

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    Examples of real images include the image produced on a detector in the rear of a camera, and the image produced on an eyeball retina (the camera and eye focus light through an internal convex lens). In ray diagrams (such as the images on the right), real rays of light are always represented by full, solid lines; perceived or extrapolated rays ...

  3. Hermaphrodite (Nadar) - Wikipedia

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    Hermaphrodite is a series of photographs of a young intersex person, who had a male build and stature and may have been assigned female or self-identified as female, taken by the French photographer Nadar (real name Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) in 1860. Possibly commissioned by Armand Trousseau, the nine photographs have been described as ...

  4. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Photos are included through surveys by at least two separate publications, the surveys not limited by time period, subject or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, most influential or greatest—but they are all considered key images in the history of photography.

  5. List of major Creative Commons licensed works - Wikipedia

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    2004. by Lawrence Lessig (the first CC licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books) CC BY-NC 1.0 [11] Freesouls. 2008. 2010 (digital ebook) book with essays and photos of key people of the free movement by Joi Ito. CC BY [12] The Future of Ideas.

  6. Virtual image - Wikipedia

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    In optics, the image of an object is defined as the collection of focus points of light rays coming from the object. A real image is the collection of focus points made by converging rays, while a virtual image is the collection of focus points made by backward extensions of diverging rays. In other words, a virtual image is found by tracing ...

  7. Photograph - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...

  8. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are not synonymous. Naturalism, as an idea relating to visual representation in Western art, seeks to depict ...

  9. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]