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Photographic negative

Diagram showing the negative-positive photographic process: a scene is captured on film in a camera, developed into a negative, projected onto paper with an enlarger, and developed again to produce a positive print.

A person in glasses examines a strip of film in a darkroom. Overlaid text reads "What's the point of film photography?" with "film photography?" highlighted in blue.

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Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, albumen silver print from wet-collodion glass negative by Gustave Le Gray, c. 1856; in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Gustave Le Gray

French photographer