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As a military application, a black and white film emulsion sensitive for infrared light was the key to break many codes. Infrared film is able to point out different absorbtions of thermal radiation, and thus reveal camouflaged installations. More specific camouflage techniques could be exposed by combining high grade black and white films and optic filters. Such colored filters provided huge possibilities for experimentation: isolating different wavelenghts to figure out color through black and white and laying out the pieces of the puzzle. These specialized imaging techniques were aimed to break ‘the most perfect cryptic powers’ and to reveal enemies with the chameleonic impulse. (3)

(1) Hanna Rose Shell, Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 2012, New York, Zone Books, p.89

(3) Hanna Rose Shell, Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 2012, New York, Zone Books, p.173

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