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Points of View: Themes

Explore eight themes of 19th-century life
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From Talbot's revolution in the early 1840s

A new age of celebrity dawned thanks to portraiture

Now everyone could enjoy art

Photographers were recording their travels

Photographs exposed harsh truths and imagined idylls

New ways to understand the world beyond human vision

Cameras documented the forging of a new world

A new century promised and threatened

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