Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html