ARTH 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peter Mark Roget, Eadweard Muybridge, Camera Obscura
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Repeated images and long scrolls, similar to a roll of film. Tiny hole in a wall in a closed-off room. Uses light to reverse image and display it on the wall. Came up with "persistence of vision" theory: when we look at something, an image stays on our retinas for a split second. Inspired lots of inventions having to do with motion. A flawed theory, since the brain also has a lot to do with it. A disc with an image on each side and two loops. Thaumatrope: when you pulled the loops, the images would blend together. Cylindrical turntable with slots containing strips of images: when you turned the cylinder, you"d see a moving picture. Created the daguerre-type (still photography: when you put the tin plate in the dark, the image would develop. Thought that when horses ran, all of their hooves left the ground.
