RE: [Leica] What Makes a good Picture?

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

That may well be - despite what the vehement reaction Hockney's name
seems to have provoked, I was simply saying that I found the theory
fascinating, as well as the evidence Hockeny, who apparently spent two
years focusing on this, developed. 

B. D.

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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...?
>
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>[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
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>
>
>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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