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🎨 Arts March 03, 2026 at 03:50 PM

We've Been Manipulating Images Since the Invention of Photography—Long Before Photoshop or Artificial Intelligence

Source: Smithsonian Magazine

A new exhibition at the Rijksmuseum showcases over 50 historical photographs from 1860-1940, revealing early techniques of image manipulation to depict the impossible.

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