Monday, February 20, 2006

Photography and painters - secret friends since the renaissance!

''Early camera obscuras used light and lenses to devastating effect. Did Vermeer pioneer this technique to produce his 17th century interiors?...''

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/art/vermeer_camera_01.shtml

How simple can a "camera obscura" be? The only thing you need is a dark
room and a normal mirror and you can project images on a canvas: from
there to "photo-realstic" pictures the step seems short!

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