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    A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists and microscopists. The camera lucida projects an optical superimposition of the subject...
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  • Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (French: La Chambre claire) is a short book published in 1980 by the French literary theorist and philosopher...
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    a plate within a few minutes. A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. The camera lucida projects an optical image of the...
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    the art camera body. Bonnington Pavilion – the first Scottish Camera Obscura, dating from 1708 Black mirror Bristol Observatory Camera lucida History...
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  • Carnet Jove Jury Award. At the Fantasia Film Festival, the film won the Camera Lucida Award. "A Ghost Story (12A)". British Board of Film Classification....
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    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...
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    use of the camera lucida to draw precise representations of scenes; the architect Philip Steadman similarly argued that Vermeer used the camera obscura in...
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    were examined using his father's microscope and then drawn using the camera lucida technique that his father had explained to him, or sketched. His father's...
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    Secret Knowledge, Hockney posited that the Old Masters used camera obscura as well as camera lucida and lens techniques that projected the image of the subject...
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    compositions, and specifically some combination of curved mirrors, camera obscura, and camera lucida. This became known as the Hockney–Falco thesis, named after...
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