When early photography-like technologies emerged, people weren't quite sure what to make of the resultant images.
Some of these technologies, like the camera obscura, were used as perspective-aides for painters and other sorts of visual artists, so the same images embedded into tangible mediums were perceived as something akin to an architect's blueprint…
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