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What Rembrandt Knew About Shadow

The most influential lighting technique in art history, and why photographers are still learning from a painter who died in 1669.

Rembrandt van Rijn never photographed anyone. He died three hundred and fifty-seven years before the first camera. And yet every portrait photographer working today is, in some sense, his student.

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