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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"camera obscura"”.
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A lexicon for Camera Obscura
The camera obscura has allowed artists, scientists, and philosophers to view the world as a flat image. Two - dimensional renditions of visual reality seem to be more manageable and easier to grasp than reality itself. A Lexicon for Camera Obscura is a survey of facts and lore about the author's …
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An Exploration of Visual Sensations: The Use of Depth Perception to Create Pre-Architectural Forms
… this physical abstraction, I created a modified camera obscura. This exploration produced clearly defined images-as-products that were interpreted as pre-architectural forms, which allowed me to translate color abstractions into architectural form studies, or models-as-products. Thus, the …
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Investigations of ‘universality plus difference’ as being a ‘partial way of seeing’
… Ringe Raja, and the final set of works using the camera obscura technique (Accidental Surveillance, Outside In, and Outside In/Inside Out). Universality is explored through the use of a number of cultural, and, in the case of the initial works, various technological means. Cultural devices used …
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Snapshot photography : a phatic, socially constructed mnemonic technology
… the desire to capture the images created by the camera obscura by mark-making with the pencil of light as an aid memoir. I argue that the desire to externalise memory using mnemonic technology is innate with primal origins in parietal art and lithic technologies. The discourse explores the …
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The faithful and/or flattering in 19th Century portraiture
… of different optical devices such as the camera obscura, the kaleidoscope and the thaumatrope signifies a change in the perception of vision at the time. The aim of this dissertation is to examine the work of four artists with reference to nineteenth century concerns surrounding vision. …
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MaBareBare, a rumour of a dream
… specifically instituting several iterations of a camera obscura installation as a response to my dissatisfaction with the documentary impulse that I understand to 'trap’ khelobedu. These methodologies emphasise the idea of play and participation aimed at forming a habit of practice. They …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
… that might have remained invisible had the camera not caught them. Primarily, Bishop‘s poetry is an art of precise observation that seeks out the strange dimension of the ordinary. Comparing both arts illuminates the way Bishop's precision works at revealing the oneiric in the empirical. …
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Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision
… that might have remained invisible had the camera not caught them. Primarily, Bishop‘s poetry is an art of precise observation that seeks out the strange dimension of the ordinary. Comparing both arts illuminates the way Bishop's precision works at revealing the oneiric in the empirical. …