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Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

In 1853, John Benjamin Dancer achieved a feat of seemingly impossible scale: he shrunk an image to the size of a sharpened pencil tip. Anika Burgess explores the invention of microphotography and its influence on erotic paraphernalia and military communications. more