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Camera Obscura Quotes






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Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash’d at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817) (Camera Obscura Quotes)
If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process. (Camera Obscura Quotes)
During photography’s first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable. (Camera Obscura Quotes)
I’d like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what’s going on outside (Camera Obscura Quotes)