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The ‘Camera Lucida’ is a tool for assisting in the creation of expanded or reduced drawings from originals or straight from nature.
The artist sees his image when he stares at the tip of his pencil on the page and simply follows this double image. https://t.co/RrCc8UizmX
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IMAGES HANGING IN A CHAMBER
GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA PORTA (1535-1615)
It is to Porta that we owe the explanation of the phenomenon produced by a light beam entering a darkroom, “That by night an image may seem to hang in a chamber."
It’s been documented many times that Florence La Badie was the only major Motion Picture star to die at the peak of their stardom.
This may be true, however names like Carole Lombard, Wallace Reid and Jean Harlow immediately come to mind. https://t.co/OLbJYEpYfZ
This device (r) enabled a scene or person to be traced from life onto paper with considerable precision.
Ronalds and Dr Alexander Blair used it to document the important Neolithic monuments at Carnac France, (l) with "almost photographic accuracy". https://t.co/rsQFxZkXSA
An engraving (r) from the book ‘Au Random du Chemin’ by M & Mme Satanislas Meunier - J. Rothschild publisher in Paris 13 rue des Saint-Pères. C. 1886. See the ‘Lampadorama’ bottom left corner. https://t.co/eml8QSzjpp
18TH CENTURY LANTERN ENGRAVING
This beautiful 18th century print, entitled ‘La Lanterne Magique d’Amour’ (The Magic Lantern of Love), was engraved by Pierre Michel Alix (1762-1817), after a painting by Jean Frédéric Schall (1752-1825).
Marey's mobile camera allowed the birds to be followed easily. Simply by aiming his gun at the flying birds, Marey was able to place twelve exposures along the outer edge of the plate.
Pictured is Eadweard Muybridge’s Cockatoo 1884. https://t.co/X5a7jlffD3
Here’s a four-page reference to, and illustrations for the ‘Pamphengos’ figs.11 & 12 taken from ‘The Art of Projection and Complete Magic Lantern Manual’ by Expert, Published by E. A. Beckett, London, 1893, pp13-16. -30- https://t.co/h86mRTfO4A
The ‘Fountain of Colladon’ was a luminous fountain consisting of projecting light inside a stream of water.
In the engraving a man regulates the flow of water that feeds a fountain placed in the centre of a container intended to collect the water (l).
J-D. Colladon (r). https://t.co/DBjgWrzqcN