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Revolutionary technology in the old days: lantern slides
Door kunstvlo op October 09, 2009 14:31. 13 comments
This video shows a very interesting talk by Deborah Wythe, Head of the Brooklyn Museum Digital Collections and Services. It is on the use of lantern slides in the beginning of the twentieth century and the influence of this specific technology on the way people viewed the world.
In this day and age where still and moving images literally colour and shape our world, it is startling to realize it was so completely different once (and not that long ago)…