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The camera obscura box reproduced these conditions and clarified the images with the addition of a lens.
The use of the camera obscura for painting is hardly a matter of short cuts or technical ease.
The party also had a camera obscura to produce topographic images, although they seem never to have used it.
But the glistening object on the town's market place on Saturday morning turned out to be a mirrored camera obscura.
He gave a number of arguments to support this claim, the most persuasive being the camera obscura, or pinhole camera.
Suppose that one of Vermeer's main uses for the camera obscura was to obtain precise outlines for the various shapes in a composition.
As Hockney points out, plenty of artists like Leonardo da Vinci were keenly aware of the camera obscura.
The work discusses many subjects including demonology, magnetism and the camera obscura.
A traditional camera obscura was a dark room with light shining through a lens or tiny hole in the wall.
Concerning the question of optical aids, there is a possible answer well short of the use of lenses, mirrors, or a pinhole camera obscura.
During their travels around India, the Daniells employed a camera obscura to produce detailed pencil drawings.
It has been suggested that Vermeer traced the images of a camera obscura in his paintings.
My explanation for this very curious result is that Vermeer had a camera obscura with a lens at the painting's viewpoint.
He will have the windows of a tour bus sealed, except for a few lenses mounted on each side that project passing views on a central screen, creating a rolling camera obscura.
He was the first to propose adding a convex lens to the camera obscura.
A few years before that she had created a walk-in camera obscura to visualize the experience of a slave who spent seven years in hiding in a tiny attic.
Scientists in the seventeenth century were fascinated by the workings of the human eye, which fostered the invention of optical devices such as the camera obscura.
The project focused on the subject of the camera obscura, with works chosen from each artist's oeuvre specifically to construct a dialogue around this theme.
We are looking to put in a camera obscura or a viewing tower in the church steeple as a tourist attraction to complement the Botanic Gardens across the road.
We climb the tower near the castle to see the camera obscura.
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He is now forming a menagerie, and also has a collection of fossils and minerals from the neighbourhood, with a camera obscura.
Men and women and animals seen at the numbered white stations in the sand, were but fantastic figures in a camera obscura.
In fact, Cooper could never comprehend how his head was like a camera obscura!
In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.
He did not reply, but quietly led me into his camera obscura that I might see for myself.
The principles of its construction are the same with those of the camera obscura.
Including zoetropes, thaumatropes and a camera obscura, the gadgets were crucial to the development of photography and film.
He also gives descriptions of the camera obscura and of the burning-glass.
He saw them all as on the ever-changing field of a camera obscura.
The same principle enters into the arrangement of the camera obscura.
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