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François Willème

François Willème (27 May 1830 – 31 January 1905) was a French painter, sculptor and photographer who in 1859 invented the 'photosculpture', also known as 'sculpture by light', a means of generating 3D forms in a variety of media, clay, marble or electroplated bronze, from photographs taken by a battery of cameras.

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• ▸Canon Inc.
• ▸Culture of Tunisia
• ▸Great Dayton Flood

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