Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And in today's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/arts/design/29OPTI.html (you do have to log in & create a password - they've never sent me any spam) Gilbert on 11/29/01 11:48 AM, Guy Bennett at gbennett@lainet.com wrote: >> There was a great BBC programme with Hockney on this - very very interesting >> (great stuff like famous paintings, that when you look closely, have depth >> of field/out of focus problems! And suddenly, at the time when certain >> optical devices become available, everyone in a lot of paintings becomes >> left handed... even a monkey in one picture! >> I flicked through Hockneys book of the programme - very interesting too. >> [snip] >> I imagine it will come to PBS or something like that sometime. There was a >> good article in the Radio Times, and one in the New Yorker by Hockney a year >> or so ago. >> Tim A > > > On this issue, read Philip Steadman's "Vermeer's Camera" (Oxford, 2001), > reviewed here on the Lug last spring when the book came out. Steadman > studies the same problem as Hockney, but he did it first, if I recall. His > book is also the most thorough exploration of the potential use of a camera > obscura by Vermeer, something that has been debated forever, but has yet to > be proven. Steadman can't prove it either, but he gives some very > compelling evidence that Vermeer did indeed use some form of camera to > compose and paint his pictures. A good read. > > Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html