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The High School in Panorama
The School’s archives hold numerous panoramic photographs from this time period that capture the campus and the community as they had never been shown before.
From the earliest days of daguerreotype photography in the mid-1800s, photographers have sought to capture an entire large scene in a single photo. The encompassing nature of a panoramic image gives the viewer the sense of being in the scene itself, without sacrificing details.
The earliest panoramic photographs were created by connecting a series of detailed images of the same scene to create a single wide-format image. Over time, camera technology evolved and cameras developed specifically for panoramic photography captured these images – often landscapes or large group photos — in a single step.
Episcopal High School got caught up in the enthusiasm for panoramic photography at the height of its popularity in the early twentieth century. The School’s archives hold numerous panoramic photographs from this time period that capture the campus and the community as they had never been shown before.
