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Subject: RE: [Leica] Bokeh - OT Long
From: "Dan Hausman" <PGW@ecr.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 21:45:36 -0400

I wrote a Art History paper in 1979 on the fact that  Vermeer used a camera
Lucida to help his rendering, he even rendered the optical artifacts in his
work. My art history prof said I was full of beans. HA!

 Dan pgw@ecr.net

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh - OT Long



"Gil, Miguel (US - Los Angeles)" wrote:
>
> Mystery of Vermeer's technique uncovered
>
> The Guardian: Thursday, May 31, 2001
>
> Fiachra Gibbons Arts correspondent
>
> For centuries art experts have attempted to solve the riddle of how
Vermeer
> painted canvasses of such sublime realism that Proust said he wanted to
die
> under one. Now one of the great mysteries of art history has finally been
> solved - Johannes Vermeer's delicately composed snapshots of Dutch 17th
> century domestic life look so like photographs because he used a camera.
>
><Snip>

Notice the use of the word "snapshots" in referent to the Vermeer paintings
which Proust what's to die under they are so good? Not exactly an insult is
it?

That's what i was talking about 5 months ago!!

:)
Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA

http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/

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