In these days of digital cameras and Photoshop, it is hard to imagine the wonder that instant photography and the first colour photographs inspired. It comes as a revelation to witness a landscape striped by lightning in daylight through the eyes of the photographer who first captured it; to stand beside him in a mocking crowd, as he points a camera at fireworks exploding in the night sky; or to feel his embarrassment as he asks the King and Queen of Denmark to hold their poses for a few seconds.
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