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  2. Camera lucida - Wikipedia

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    Camera lucida in use. A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists and microscopists. It projects an optical superimposition of the subject being viewed onto the surface upon which the artist is drawing. The artist sees both scene and drawing surface simultaneously, as in a photographic double exposure.

  3. Camera Lucida (book) - Wikipedia

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    Camera Lucida, along with Susan Sontag's On Photography, was one of the most important early academic books of criticism and theorization on photography.Neither writer was a photographer, however, and both works have been much criticised since the 1990s.

  4. Hockney–Falco thesis - Wikipedia

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    In June 1999, Hockney published in the Royal Academy magazine, speculating about Ingres using the camera lucida and Vincent van Gogh possibly using an epidiascope or other mechanical means for his painting of The Prisoners in the Courtyard, which very precisely reproduces Gustave Doré's engraving (although Hockney considered this could also be ...

  5. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    Camera-lucida-scheme. A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. The camera lucida projects an optical image of the subject being viewed, on the surface upon which the artist is drawing. The artist sees both scene and drawing surface simultaneously, as in a photographic double exposure.

  6. Roland Barthes - Wikipedia

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    They had lived together for 60 years. The loss of the woman who had raised and cared for him was a serious blow to Barthes. His last major work, Camera Lucida, is partly an essay about the nature of photography and partly a meditation on photographs of his mother. The book contains many reproductions of photographs, though none of them are of ...

  7. LevelFILM Acquires Canadian SciFi Thriller ‘Tin Can,’ Playing ...

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    After making its North American Premiere in the Fantasia Film Festival’s Camera Lucida sidebar, Seth A. Smith’s dystopian sci-fi thriller “Tin Can” was picked up by Canada’s levelFILM ...

  8. Frederick Catherwood - Wikipedia

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    Catherwood developed a reputation as a topographical artist. He perfected a drawing technique which used the camera lucida [4] and supplied the drawings for the panoramas of Jerusalem and Thebes shown by Robert Burford in Leicester Square. [5] [6]

  9. William Hyde Wollaston - Wikipedia

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    He invented the camera lucida (1807) which contained the Wollaston prism (the four-sided optics of which were first described basically by Kepler) [9] and the reflecting goniometer (1809). He also developed the first lens specifically for camera use, called the meniscus lens, in 1812.

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