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17 Rio Pesaro, Venice
Paolo Salviati Italian
Not on view
In the nineteenth century, slow exposure times made photography under low-light conditions nearly impossible. To compensate, some photographers used color to transform daylight scenes into romantic nocturnes. In this clever day-for-night image, Salviati, a commercial photographer in Venice, applied a cerulean wash to a view of a winding canal, adding a painted moon in the sky above and sparkling reflections of gas lamps in the water below.
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