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Century-Old Glass Photographic Plate Reveals Earliest Evidence of an Exoplanet

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 15, 2016April 15, 2016

The Carnegie Institution for Science announced this week that one researcher’s dive into a collection of glass photographic plates turned up an unexpected image from 1917 that indicates the presence of an exoplanetary system.

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19th-Century Storm Chasers Took the First Tornado Photographs

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 6, 2016April 6, 2016

In the 19th century, when photography was developing into a mass medium, a few intrepid early adopters pointed their glass plate cameras at one of the most intimidating natural forces on Earth: the tornado.

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Rediscovered Glass Plate Photographs Show the Skies 120 Years Ago

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 14, 2016August 19, 2021

Over 150 glass plate photographs of the moon, stars, and solar eclipses were recently rediscovered in the basement of the the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen.

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The Glass Plate Garden: Early Photographs of Central Park

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 19, 2015May 28, 2015

In thousands of recently digitized glass plate negatives, the natural and landscaped grandeur of gardens past is revealed in freshly sharp detail.

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Analogue’s Last Gasp

by Ellen Pearlman April 25, 2012April 30, 2012

Though Micheal Wenyon and Susan Gamble’s show A Universe held up for Inspection focuses on displays of holograms and other works, the real raison d’ete of this exhibit is to reveal the frisson erupting over the last gasp of the analogue picture.

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