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Dioramas


 
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Experience the theatrical precursor to the immersive image. Pioneered by Louis Daguerre, the diorama used translucent paintings and manipulated light to create a spectacular sense of movement and depth, enchanting audiences before the invention of cinema.

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Experience the Spectacle.

Contents

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre and Charles Marie Bouton
1Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre: Dioramas
Contemporary accounts - Regent's Park Diorama
2The Diorama, Regent's Park. London (1826)
3The Diorama, Regent's Park. London (1829)
4Contemporary accounts of the Diorama - Regent's Park. London (1830)
Patents
5John Arrowsmith's Diorama, or Method of Exhibiting Pictures - British Patent No. 4899, 10 February 1824
Dioramas in museums
6Dioramas in Natural History Museums
7Eadweard Muybridge: Animals in motion
Photographers
8Joseph Holmes: amnh (American Museum of Natural History)

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