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Underwater Optics and Artistic Imagination by agathebtz64 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses how underwater optics were revealed to the public starting in the late 19th century through diving, underwater photography, and film. This transformed how people imagined and depicted the underwater world in art and culture, inspiring fantasies of altered realities. Properties of underwater vision like diminished depth perception and changed light and color behavior defied terrestrial perspective systems and validated modernist aesthetics. Surrealist art in particular drew on the aqua
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