Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Vermeer's Camear [was: Critical discourse on photography]
From: ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:08:21 -0800

this is actually better than Sunday's piece...wish I could go to the
forum...
t- from the Left coast (but born int the Right Rockies)

> From: "J. Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@hvc.rr.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:57:27 -0500
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Vermeer's Camear [was: Critical discourse on photography]
> 
> 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
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