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But he was wrong. Before these tools became widespread, photographers were indeed very much like painters, in both form and function. The camera itself evolved from the camera obscura, literally a “darkened room,” in which one or two people would stand, and record the scene before them, tracing it on wallpaper. Later film-based large format cameras required…
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nprfreshair: Tomorrow is Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday. He might just be the coolest 80-year-old out there. For some Willie reading, last year Texas Monthly did an oral history of outlaw country — “That Seventies Show”: Up to that point, the cosmic cowboys had played to crowds that looked largely like they did. Willie brought a…