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The Photograph Idea Revisited

We need someone familiar with the idea of a camera such as the camera obscura, a precursor to the photographic camera. The camera obscura was well known in the medieval era. One sort of camera obscura was a box small enough to fit on a table. These types of cameras obscura were adapted for photography by the likes of Niépce, Daguerre, Talbot and Herschel. The other type of camera obscura is a large darkened room. You can easily experiment with one. Cover all the windows in a room with black paper so that it completely dark in the room. Then put a small hole in the paper covering one of the windows. The out-of-doors, if it is a bright enough day, will be projected onto a wall opposite the window. To improve on this camera, in place of the hole put a camera lens. Now imagine that you hang a cloth that has been treated with a photosensitive chemical opposite the hole or lens in your darkened room and that outside you hung the body of a crucified man in the sun. You should be able to create a photographic negative on the cloth.