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This diagram connects streams of research, events, philosophies, historical personalities -- in short, the stories which combine to tell the overarching tale of the camera obscura.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
Natural Philosophers:  Mo-tze & Aristotle
Aristotle.  Problems.  Vol. 1. Trans. W. S. Hett. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1936. 2 vols. 341.
Geaney, Jane M.  "Critique of A. C. Graham's Reconstruction of the 'Neo-Mohist Canons.'"  Journal of the American Oriental Society. 119.1. 1999: 1-11. 6 July 2009 <URL>.
Graham, A. C. Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science.  Hong Kong, China: The Chinese University Press, 1978. 372-76.
Krebs, Robert E. and Carolyn A.  Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Mei, Yi-Pao.  Motse, The Neglected Rival of Confucius.  London: Arthur Probsthain, 1934. 37-47, 165.
Motse. The Ethical and Political Works of Motse. Trans. Yi-Pao Mei. London: Arthur Probsthain, 1929.
Mozi. Basic Writings.  Trans. Burton Watson. New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 1-2, 46.
Needham, Joseph.   Chinese Science: Explorations of an Ancient Tradition.  Ed. Nakayama, Shigeru and Nathan Sivin. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1973. 98-135.
Needham, Joseph.   Science and Civilisation in China.  Vol. 4. New York: The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1962. 5 vols.
The Shoo King, of the Historical Classic.  Trans. W. H. Medhurst. Shanghae: The Mission Press, 1846.
Tseu, Augustinus A.  The Moral Philosophy of Mo-Tze.  Taipei, China: China Printing, Ltd., 1965. 20-29.
Williamson, H. R. Mo-Ti, a Chinese Heretic.  Tsinan, China: The University Press, 1927. 1-15.
Yang, Lihui, Deming An, and Jessica A. Turner.  Handbook of Chinese Mythology.  Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
 
The Scientists:  Alhazen, da Vinci, Frisius, Kepler, Descartes
Al Deek, Mahmoud.  “Ibn Al-Haitham: Master of Optics, Mathematics, Physics and Medicine.” Al Shindagah.   Nov.-Dec. 2004. 23 June 2009 <URL>.
Al-Haytham, Ibn.  The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham: Books I-III: On Direct Vision.  2 vols.  Trans. A. I. Sabra. London: The Warburg Institute, 1989. xix-xx.
Alhacen. Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception.  Vol. 2. Trans. Mark A. Smith. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2001. 2 vols. 379-504.
Connor, James.  Kepler's Witch: An Astonmer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother.  New York:  Harper, 2004.  138.
Hockney, David.  Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters.  New York, New York: Penguin Group, 2001. 205.
Knight, David G.  Johannes Kepler & Planetary Motion.  New York: F. Watts, 1962.  20-25.
Lindberg, David C.  “The Science of Optics.” Science in the Middle Ages. Ed. David C. Lindberg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 343.
Nickell, Joe.  Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation.  Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1994. 5-6.
“Paris Manuscript D.”  Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online.  2009. University of the Arts. 30 June 2009 <URL>.
Richter, Irma A., ed.  Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 110-16.
Selin, Helaine, ed.  Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997. 405-08.
Steffens, Bradley.  Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist.  Greensboro, North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2007. 40-90.
Whitney, Elspeth.  Medieval Science and Technology.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004. 82-86, 149-52.
  
The Optics of Venice: Cardano, Barbaro, Benedetti, Della Porta
"Camera Obscura."  1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.  27 Oct. 2006. 23 July 2009 <URL>.
Camuffo, D., E. Pagan, and G. Sturaro.  “The extraction of Venetian sea-level change from paintings by Canaletto and Bellotto.”  Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and its Lagoon: State of Knowledge.  Ed. Tom Spencer, and C. A. Fletcher. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 129-31.
Durbin, Paul T, ed.  Philosophy of Technology.  Vol. 6. 2nd ed. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. 69.
Emerson, Peter Henry.  Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art.   2nd ed. London: Sapson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890. 66.
Gardner, Helen.  Art Through the Ages.   4th ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. 738.
Ilardi, Vincent.  Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes.  Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2007. 192, 219-22.
Porta, John Baptista.  Natural Magick.  3rd ed. New York, New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1959. 363-65.
W., J. C.  “Invention of the Camera Obscura.” The Mechanics’ Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette. Ed. Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursery. Vol. XXIX. London: W. A. Robertson, 1838. 23.
Zielinkski, Siegfried.  Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2006. 88-90, 194.
  
The Painters:  Vermeer, Canaletto, Algarotti, Southerland
Algarotti, Francesco.  "An essay on painting written in Italian by Count Algarotti..."  Dublin, 1765.  Eighteenth Century Collections Online.  Gale.  Calvin College.  1 July 2009 <URL>.
Bailey, Anthony.  Vermeer: A View of Delft. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001. 111.
Blankert, Albert.  Vermeer of Delft.  Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1978.
Huerta, Robert D. Giants of Delft. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2003. 43-53.
Janson, Jonathan.  Essential Vermeer .com 19 Jun. 2009. 1 July 2009 <URL>.
Koningsberger, Hans.  The World of Vermeer, 1632-1675. New York: Time-Life Books, 1983. 137.
"Mother's Bi-Monthly Almanac." Sep. 1977. Mother Earth News. 2 July 2009 <URL>.
Southerland, James D.  My Camera Obscura: 25 + Years.  2006.
Steadman, Philip.  “Vermeer and the Camera Obscura.”  BBC History. 23 Sep. 2002. BBC. 1 July 2009 <URL>.
Steadman, Philip.  Vermeer’s Camera.  New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 1-6.
Wolf, Bryan Jay.  Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., 2001. 32, 118-19.
  
The Photographers:  Wedgwood, Niépce, Daguerre, Talbot

Barger, M. Susan and William B. White.  The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. 7-19.
Batchen, Geoffrey.  Burning with Desire.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1999. 24-128.
Davenport, S. T.  “Engraving and Other Reproductive Art Processes.”  Journal of the Society of the Arts.  Vol. XIII. London: Bell and Daldy, 1865. 136-37.
Dircks, Henry.  “Ivory Engraving, or Durertype – a newly-invented process.”  Journal of the Franklin Institute.  Ed. Thomas P. Jones. Vol. IX. Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1845. 137-41.
Flukinger, Roy.  “Joseph Nicéphore and the First Photograph.”  Harry Ransom Center.  2009. The University of Texas at Austin. 9 July 2009 <URL>.
Goldberg, Vicki, ed.  “The Edinburgh Review, January 1843: An Excerpt.”  Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present.  New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. 53-54.
Hudson, Graham.  The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain & America 1720-1920.  London: The British Library Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 49.
Singer, Charles, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall, and Trevor I. Williams, eds.  A History of Technology.  Vol. 5. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 8 vols. 716-20.
Towler, John.  The Silver Sunbeam: A Practical and Theoretical Text-Book on Sun Drawing and Photographic Printing.  8th ed. New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., 1873. 14, 286.
Ure, Andrew, Robert Hunt, and Frederick William Rudler.  Ure’s Dictionary of Art, Manufactures, and Mines.  Vol. 3. 7th ed. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878. 562.
  
Other
Bud, Robert and Deborah Jean Warner, eds.  Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia.  New York, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1998. 88-91.
Burns, Paul.  The History of the Discovery of Cinematography.  1997. 30 June 2009 <URL>.
Cavell, Richard.  McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography.  Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 71-72.
De Almeida, Hermione and George H. Gilpin.  Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India.  London: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. 191.
Decyk, Betsy Newell.  "Cartesian Imagination and Perspectival Art."  Descartes' Natural Philosophy.  Eds. Stephen Gaukroger, John Andrew Schuster, and John Sutton. New York: Routledge, 2000. 471.
Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison Gernsheim.  The History of Photography.  London: Oxford University Press, 1955. 1-9, 36-41.
Graham, Bob.  John Charles Frémont. "Charles Preuss's Expedition Drawings." 2009. 6 July 2009 <URL>.
Grigson, Geoffrey and Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith, eds.  Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius Which Are the Measure of His Civilization.  New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1957. 58-59.
Hammond, John H.  The Camera Obscura: A Chronicle.  Bristol: Adam Hilger, Ltd., 1981. 1-105.
Iampolski, Mikhail.  “The Logic of an Illusion: Notes on the Genealogy of Intellectual Cinema.”  Camera Obscura Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson.  Ed. Allen, Richard, and Malcolm Turvey. The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2002. 35. 
Smith, Michael Llewellyn.  Athens.  Signal Books Ltd, 2004. 113-14.
Tomas, David.  Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies.  New York: Continuum, 2004. 108-12.

 

INSPIRATIONAL VIDEOS

Camera Obscura (2003) from Moses Venegas on Vimeo.
 

zoetrope from puntualisimo on Vimeo.
 

Rotoscope from Euna Kho on Vimeo.

 

PROCESSES AND EFFECTS
  
AE-Shape-Layers.gif (7346 bytes)      Shape Layers in After Effects CS3
from Layers magazine
 
eclipse.gif (10275 bytes) Creating an Eclipse
in After Effects
Part 1  Part 2
 
animated-handwriting.gif (10915 bytes) Animated Handwriting
from Layers magazine
 
canaletto.gif (8111 bytes) Replicating Canaletto Landscapes
from Digital Arts
 
tracing-photographs.gif (10036 bytes) Tracing Photographs
from Derek Lea's Creative Photoshop CS4: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques
Focal Press

 

RESOURCES
  
jellyka.gif (1391 bytes)      www.dafont.com
Jellyka - Estrya's Handwriting
 
barnouw.gif (6206 bytes) Barnouw, Erik
Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film.
New York, NY:  Oxford University Press, 1974.
 
animation-book.gif (6258 bytes) Laybourne, Kit
The Animation Book. 
New York, NY:  Three Rivers Press, 1998.
 
ssrc.gif (4279 bytes) Pzreworski, Adam and Salomon, Frank
The Art of Writing Proposals
Social Science Research Council, 1995 rev., 1998
 
mice-and-magic.gif (5719 bytes) Maltin, Leonard
Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Cartoons.
New York, NY:  Penguin Books, 1980.

 

 

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