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A railroad wanted one perfect photo of its new train, so a Chicago photographer built the world’s largest camera, weighing 1,400 pounds, and to dust its glass plate someone had to walk inside it

Workers at the Pullman plant in Illinois built two six-car trains in 1899 for daytime runs to Saint Louis. According to the brochure, every car had windows of the same size and shape. All of them matched in length and height, too. Even the locomotive’s tender rose to the exact…

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Every Picture Tells a Story

Hand drawing is arguably architecture’s oldest “technology Even as we plunge headlong into the age of artificial intelligence, drawing remains a timeless, intuitive, and powerful medium for exploring. explaining, and…

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Imaging Heaven

Imaging Heaven is a visual narrative of frescoed church ceilings, photographed across Italy and Catholic Europe. Moving from the Proto-Renaissance to the Baroque, the book follows painters as they confront a fundamental problem…

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