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A torn cover of a book about modern architecture was photographed and printed using the cyanotype printing process. The depicted building is the Alvorada Palace, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1958, and also named “Palace of the Dawn”. It was said to herald the dawning of a new era in Brazil.
The cyanotype process, which was used in the Victorian era for printing images in books and making blueprints, antedates the modern era. The modernist building, as it appears in the cyanotype, starts to resemble the ruins of a bygone era.