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New look, same great look

27 mins | Jun 5, 2022
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Colour photography enabled us to share vivid experiences in an incomprehensible way. Colour "is among the most challenging aspects of our experience to describe," and because of that, it has naturally always fascinated us throughout history. Author and Stanford University art history professor, Kim Beil, examines the history of humans as being confounded by the invention.

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