CHAPTER 4
A Legacy of Historical Techniques
The mirror represents the objects faithfully but retains them not; our canvas shows them with the same exactness and retains them all.
Tiphaigne de la Roche
Leonardo da Vinci first advocated the use of the Camera Obscura, or dark room, as an aid to drawing. It wasn’t until 1827, a little over three hundred years, that Niépce in France produced the first successful picture image created from chemical materials that hardened after an eight-hour exposure to light. Just fifty years beyond that time in 1878, Scientific American published an article on Eadward Muybridge’s animal and locomotion photographic sequences, and then a few years later in 1884 when George Eastman introduced flexible, photographic ...
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