• Vietnamese-born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs?

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Photography

• Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique?
• Robert Howlett, photographer of the iconic picture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, died from exposure to the arsenic and mercury used in the photographic process?
• silver phosphate, which was used in early photography as a light-sensitive agent, has recently been found to function as a photocatalyst for the splitting of water?
• Russian photography pioneer Karl Bulla (pictured) left more than 200,000 glass negatives that are now in the public domain?
• one of the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro was named in honor of the pioneering Scottish Victorian photographer John Thomson?
• taking photos with a perspective correction or "tilt and shift" lens can mitigate the effect of vertical perspective?
• the American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, Little Sonny, often boosted his earnings by photographing customers between his on-stage appearances?
• the PowerShot TX1 by Canon is their first attempt at a hybrid digital camera that offers both advanced ultra zoom photography and advanced HDTV movie capture?
• the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?
• the many optical effects apparent in Johannes Vermeer's The Lacemaker indicate that he made use of the camera obscura; an early photographical device?