This becomes astonishingly clear if you try one-an experience we hope to share with as many people as possible. Indeed, the device is so effective in assisting accurate life-drawing that, according to the controversial Hockney-Falco Thesis, it’s now believed that many of the most admired drawings of the 19th Century, such as the Neoclassical portraits of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, could only have been made with a Camera Lucida. And that is the magic of the camera lucida: it’s portable, easy to use, and-with a little practice-you just copy the world onto your page with a confident hand.īy the mid-1800s, camera lucidas were everywhere. And it does so in full daylight there’s no need for a dark shroud or enclosure, as with a camera obscura. In short, a camera lucida allows you to trace what you see.
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