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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Leonie Helm

Did you know there was an Instagram filter craze as early as the 1800s?

A Claude Glass.

It’s not just Millennials and Gen Z that are obsessed with filters – the craze goes way back, the National Gallery in London, England, has revealed.

Calling it a “craze”, Joanna from the National Gallery revealed in an Instagram video that in the 1800s there was something called a ‘Claude Glass’, inspired by the landscape painter Claude Lorrain, “who was famed for his use of tone and soft warm light in his Arcadian landscapes.”

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