フェルメール カメラ 写真研究おすすめの本

17世紀の画家フェルメールがカメラオブスキュラを使っていたかを論証する。 Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces ハードカバー – 2001/6/7 英語版 Philip Steadman (著) 貴重な本を手に入れた。カメラの前身であるカメラオブスキュラ、私は写真が生まれる前の写実的な絵画に興味があった。 Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form of camera, to enhance his realistic effects? In Vermeer's Camera , Philip Steadman traces the development of the camera obscura--first described by Leonaro da Vinci--weighs the arguments that scholars have made for and against Vermeer's use of the camera, and offers a fascinating examination of the paintings themselves and what they alone can tell us of Vermeer's technique. Vermeer left no record of his method and indeed we know almost nothing of the man nor of how he wor...