Human beings' fascination with representing the night since the early days of photography has led them to face all kinds of obstacles. The long exposure times required allowed the unexpected to happen: light effects, sweeps caused by the headlights of the occasional vehicle, distorted figures... All of this, together with that magical complicity between night and solitude, made photography something different at night. reduce the exposure time to fifty-eight seconds. Aided by the magnesium flash, photographers became interested in photography as a social document. From New York in 1888 are the photographs taken by Jacob August Riis about life in the suburbs â How the Other Half Lives â first published in the Evening Sun. The night and its inhabitants were already news. In Spain, night photography does not take long to wait. Already in 1895 the magazine Blanco y Negro created a section titled 'Madrid at night'. Puerta del Sol, a stage at the forefront of new lighting systems, became an important focus of entertainment and at night, a new space to conquer
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