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This section comprises videos on some topics of the photography to circulate some discourses on the History of photography.

The Indian elephant Fritz

The Indian elephant Fritz

Anonymous, The Indian elephant Fritz in Stupinigi Menagerie or “ The Turin elephant who later died Mad”, 1926 daguerreotype, Collezione Simeom, Archivio Storico della Città di Torino.

Video on one of the oldest Italian daguerreotype  which portrays an Indian elephant kept in the royal menagerie of Stupinigi. The elephant  Fritz was the favorite subject of many prints as well popular tales.