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A magnificent opus sectile in the Getty Villa's Temple of Hercules reproduces the first century pavement from the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum

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John Scheid

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Paul Getty Museum and a specialist in the archaeology of Greece and pre-Roman Italy

First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography hair accessories A magnificent opus sectile inEdited by Steffen Siegel An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the first year of photography, not because the sensational new medium was invented then, but because that is the year it was introduced to the world. After more than 175 years, and for the first time