http://www.essentialvermeer.com/ Mário Pires Photographer and curator of Photography now! http://www.scoop.it/t/photography-now retorta@xxxxxxxxx http://www.retorta.net https://www.facebook.com/retorta http://twitter.com/retorta On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Ken Sinclair <photo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John, > > There is a book titled 'Vermeer's Camera' wherein the author Philip Steadman > has offered (via diagrams.. and, having had built the 'sets' with the UK's BBC > research staff for a television program, provided a rather strong argument > that Vermeer actually used a camera obscura as a basis for a large number his paintings. > > It is a good read, well written. > > Ken > > > On 2013-08-06, at 3:56 AM, John Palcewski <palcewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> "The painter Johannes Vermeer is known for his incredible treatment of >> light and the near-photorealism of his 17th-century scenes. How did he >> do it without the use of a camera, which was invented some 150 years >> later?" >> >> My vote goes to the camera obscura, which of course predated photography >> >> Rest of the disappointingly short and information-free article here: >> >> http://bit.ly/13VnxAL >> >
