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A picture paints a thousand words

With the annual Les Rencontres d’Arles photography festival kicking off this month, here we look at some useful photo-related phrases and French expressions.

Rebuilding the faces of history

Before the age of photography, and outside of the circles wealthy enough to attract portrait artists, once a person had died, their face would be forgotten. Now, in his Visualforensic workshop within a laboratory of the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Philippe Froesch is using 3D computer technology to make virtual reconstructions of the forgotten faces of history.

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A picture paints a thousand words

Rebuilding the faces of history

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