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The Latent Image
Every photograph hides a second story: how it was made, who it changed, and what it can no longer prove. Two curious hosts follow one image, one idea or one argument from the world of photography each week, start with the simple version, and dig until they hit something nobody tells you. Every claim checked using FactUnion's fact-checking process; every source is in the episode notes.
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Episodes
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The Town That Can't Show Its Own Pictures
A public library pays rent on a storage unit holding about two hundred thousand photographs of Poughkeepsie's twentieth century, but it doesn't own them and can't freely put them online.
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Whose Eye Was It? The Fight Over Napalm Girl's Credit
Fifty years after Trang Bang, three investigations studied the same road and the same negative and reached three verdicts. So what is a photo credit, really?
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The Kodak Fiends Are Back
In 1888 the camera hid in a waistcoat button; in 2026 it sits on a face with a small warning light, and that light decides for itself what counts as watching.
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One Gram of Silver
Silver hit a record and film got more expensive, just like in 1980. But a roll holds about a gram of silver, and the bigger risk to film may be the old machines that coat it.
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Certified Real: What a Signed Photo Can't Prove
Apple wants your iPhone to swear a photo is real, but a Nikon camera, a spirit photographer from 1869 and a Gaza freelancer show what a signature can and can't vouch for.
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