Tyranny of The Lens Lecture

Just thought people maybe intersted in this?

The Tyranny of the Lens

Thursday, April 16, 2009
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Pillsbury Auditorium


Lecturer: Charles Falco.


Falco will discuss the influence lenses have had, and continue to have, in the production, interpretation, and distribution of artistic images. Followed by a demonstration of a camera obscura.

Andrew,

Some of the untraveled, like myself,
will be disappointed to discover that
the lecture is not anywhere near us.

Pillsbury Auditorium
701 Park Ave.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415 USA

If by any chance you learn that
the text is on line I would appreciate a link.
The subject sounds very interesting.

John Powers

Andrew,

Reading that headline of yours I assummed that lecture was a tyranny...

Basically as I inderstand this. Charles Falco teamed up with David Hockney and they came up with a thesis that many paintings and art around the rennaissance period used Camera obscura's Camera lucida's and that lens signatures of the time created a type of distortion to paintings that echoed what the lenses reproduced at the time.

I will not be taping this event if I go but there is plenty listed about the collaborative thesis of Hockney and Falco on the internet.

Here is one link :- http://www.optics.arizona.edu/SSD/art-optics/index.html