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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Big Picture Stuff: Part 2
Description: In the olden days of newspapersâand Iâm talking decades agoâthere was a specific way printing photographsâŚphotos were given to the printer who copied the picture using a special camera that converted everything to something known as âhalf-toneâ so it could be put in the paperâŚ
If you looked closely at the resulting picture, youâd see that it was made up of a pattern of dotsâŚeach one was a different size and proportional to the blackness of the original photo in that particular location of the photographâŚ
Viewed at a distance, it looked...