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How Photo Retouching Worked Before Photoshop

(via mental_floss) Retouching has been around almost as long as photography itself, but instead of taking place on a computer,

(via FlowingData) Different camera lenses cause images to do different things. This animation illustrates the weight adding phenomenon.

(via Retronaut) In 1908, the National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a New York sociologist and photographer, to document

(via Collector’s Weekly) For children, playgrounds are where magic happens. And if you count yourself among Baby Boomers or Gen

(via Atlas Obscura) As one of the earliest, practical uses of electric light, arc lamps were garishly bright. Setting aside

(via Retronaut) These photos of Harlem were taken by Gordon Parks, a young photographer for the Office of War Information

During apartheid, barriers were both constructed and modified to segregate urban spaces—roads, rivers, and large stretches of open land separating

(via retronaut) These color photos of London, spanning from the dark days of the Blitz to the triumphant celebrations of

(via Atlas Obscura) A Steinway grand piano consists of a staggering 12,116 parts. The fascinating process by which these pieces come together is

(via Retronaut) On the night of Oct. 8, 1871, a fire erupted in the O’Leary family barn at 137 DeKoven

(via Retronaut) John Wilkes Booth’s brazen murder of Lincoln, April 14, 1865 , was the only successful part of a

(via The Atlantic) In May, the International Space Station made its 100,000th orbit of the Earth, and reached nearly 16 years