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The document discusses the history of photography from its origins in 1826 with the first photograph, the View from the Window at Gras, through the development of techniques like the daguerreotype and the first nude photograph in 1839, to modern innovations like the first Kodak camera in 1888 and the first digital camera prototype in 1975. It also covers themes of capturing moments in time and how photography has evolved to digitally collect and manipulate images of the world.
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