{"id":337,"date":"2007-03-11T21:12:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lumen.nu\/rekveld\/wp\/?page_id=337"},"modified":"2009-04-07T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T21:07:24","slug":"lecture-1-the-camera-eye","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/?page_id=337","title":{"rendered":"lecture 2: the camera eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

– introduction: the camera eye metaphor<\/p>\n

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Retinal Photograph, drawn by Willy K\u00fchne, 1878
\n“He had exposed the eye of a living rabbit to a barred window, killed the rabbit, removed the retina and fixed it in alun” <\/em><\/p>\n

– the shadow as the origin of painting, the myth of Butades<\/p>\n

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\nEduard Daege, “Die Erfindung der Malerei”, 1832, Nationalgalerie, Berlin.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Plato’s allegory of the cave<\/p>\n

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\nJan Saenredam, 1604<\/em><\/p>\n

– Optics in antiquity<\/p>\n

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\na renaissance manuscript of Euclid’s Optics<\/em><\/p>\n

– Optical theories by Alhazen and Bacon<\/p>\n

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\nthe geometrically idealized anatomy of the eye by Alhazen<\/em><\/p>\n

– Kepler and the retinal image<\/p>\n

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\nthe retinal image as visualized by Cigoli (1613, left) and Descartes (1637, right).<\/em><\/p>\n

– the development of perspective in painting until Desargues<\/p>\n

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\nvan Eyck (1434, left), Masaccio (1427, right) <\/em><\/p>\n

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\nfrom the ‘Due Regole’ by Vignola\/Danti (1583)<\/em><\/p>\n

– the telescope and the microscope<\/p>\n

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\nsunspots by Galilei (1612), sperm by Leeuwenhoek (ca. 1673).<\/em><\/p>\n

– perspective machines and the photocamera<\/p>\n

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\nperspective grid by Dubreuil (1642).<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nportable camera obscura by Atkinson (1855). <\/em><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

– perspective wars, perspective and truth<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nperspective box by Pieter Janssens Elinga (1660-1680). <\/em><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

– the camera eye of Dziga Vertov<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nstill from ‘Man with the Movie Camera’ (1929).<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

further reading: <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n