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Camera Lucida

Author: William Hyde Wollaston
Year: 1807 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

A manuscript page was dark with the ink of letters formed by hand; these printers learned to use ink sparingly to achieve a highly legible page. In the case of photography, Talbot, one of the pioneers, justified his invention because of his dissatisfaction with a contemporary device for making accurate perspective drawings by hand, and the name "camera" was his remediation of the camera lucida (Trachtenberg 1980, 27; Kemp 1990, 200.Film technicians and producers remediated both photography and the practices of stage plays. We have noted that early films were once called photoplays, which expresses this combined remediation; the term mise-en-scène was also borrowed from stage production to refer to the film director's control of the visual appearance. In computer graphics, paint programs borrowed techniques and names from manual painting or graphic design practices: paintbrush, airbrush, color palette, filters, and so on. World Wide Web designers have remediated graphic design as it was practiced for printed newspapers and magazines, which themselves in some cases have reappropriated the graphic design of the World Wide Web.

Source type: picture
Info: Camera Lucida
Original size: 733x853 px. Edit
Source type: picture
Info: Camera Lucida
Original size: 2455x2481 px. Edit