The Extended Moment shows arc of photography

By Alyssa Noel
New exhibit borrowed from the National Gallery of Canada opens at the Audain Art Museum on Feb. 8

To make Direct Photograph of an Electric Positive Spark in 1888, early photographer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot created an electrical charge with a wand, transferred it to a photographic plate and created an exposure. The effect: a burst of electricity frozen in time—as if someone captured the pitch-black prairie night sky during a summer thunderstorm.…

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February 6, 2020

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