What We're Reading: The Pioneering Underwater Photography of Louis Boutan
The greatest advances in underwater photography began with mollusks: A 19th-century French biologist, Louis Boutan, wanted to study them in their natural environment, so he pioneered techniques and technologies for taking photographs underwater that would be unmatched by anyone else for decades, notes Atlas Obscura, which tells the story of …
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