Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/02
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At 4:02 PM -0500 12/2/02, bdcolen wrote:
>Don't like Hockney, eh?
>
>And his theory doesn't make sense because...?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of S Dimitrov
>Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:32 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] What Makes a good Picture?
>
>
>Ah yes, the artist as a poseur photographer, now historian. Good grief!
>Slobodan Dimitrov
>
>
>bdcolen wrote:
>> David Hockey and his theory that the great leap
>> forward in drawing and painting in the early 15th century was a result
>
>> of the use of optics - the Camera Obscura - to allow the tracing of
> > images...h
I probably shouldn't jump in here as I don't have any references at
hand, but hey, that hasn't stopped LUG traffic before..... :-)
I believe the Camera Obscura/painting advance idea was proposed over
a hundred years ago at least. I believe I've seen references to this
from the middle of the 19th century.
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