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The world of multiplying products which machinery from the Industrial Revolution brought about among other things, a machine whose main task in the future will be – to work with our shadows. Writing with light (photographs) in fact cannot exist without the sun / light and shadows. Hence, photography deals with researching shadows that the technical aid has left to us. At the entrance to the modern European game of shadows, concepts such as heliography, daguerreotypes, talbotization are properly elevated … They testify to the desire of the creators of individual techniques to attain eternity by means of technical devices that they invented. People came to see Daguerre’s dioramas, Don Slater says, “to see the re-creation of the real, and not merely an image of reality”. It’s as if God has once again found a way to show himself from the machine. The human need for meaning has gained a new partner. No illusion is more convincing than the one that is the result of precise, predictable, scientifically substantiated – machine steps. The text is intended to reflect on the following: What happened to the Truth after the appearance of photography?