obscura

• Does everybody know what a camera obscura is? —  Reed Kroloff on modern and romantic architecture
• I have cited a passage in which Reynolds confronts the work of great artists with the illusions of the camera obscura (see p. 237). The adept musical performer who reproduces the noises of a farmyard is the true parallel to the lesser Dutch artists; he deceives the ear far better than they deceive the eye. —  Albert Durer
• About obscura, again ... is it anywhere near The Faceless? besides the genre ofcourse ... because after listening to '' Planetary Duality '' you'll see tech death in a different way ... —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
• Since the inception of the camera obscura, photography has attracted a particular breed of technology-fetishist, and no matter how else Scott's work might be described based on his choice in subjects, he is a definitive example of this sort of artist. —  The Great Whatsit
• I have often been struck, when looking at a camera-obscura on a dark day, with the exact resemblance the image bore to one of the finest pictures of the old masters." —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.

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