Designers love books with big pictures and I’m no exception. A while back, I took time out to reread David Hockney’s book ‘Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters’. Now I’m no great fan of Hockney as a painter but this collaborative work of research is a fascinating insight into the fact that the great masters of western art used lens and mirror technology as far back as the early 1400s to capture projected imagery of their subjects – the advent of photography was in a way a logical progression along a linear path with the exception that chemicals were used to fix the images onto paper or plate.
01 October 2009
Enlightened by technology
Designers love books with big pictures and I’m no exception. A while back, I took time out to reread David Hockney’s book ‘Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters’. Now I’m no great fan of Hockney as a painter but this collaborative work of research is a fascinating insight into the fact that the great masters of western art used lens and mirror technology as far back as the early 1400s to capture projected imagery of their subjects – the advent of photography was in a way a logical progression along a linear path with the exception that chemicals were used to fix the images onto paper or plate.
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