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Cynthia Houppert
The Albrecht Durer Debate
July 09, 2003 10:49PM
<HTML>For many years the debate has raged as to whether the use of a
projector to make art is valid, the proponents often citing Albrecht
Durer as a reference to its validity.

But, H.W. Janson, in the History of Art, states on page 473,
"Often he, (Durer) went beyond his Italian resources; he invented,
for instance, a device for producing an image by purely mechanical
means, to demonstrate the objective validity of perspective."
Janson further says, "Durer, of course, knew that such an image was
the record of a scientific experiment; not a work of art. Neither
was he really interested in a method for making pictures without human
skill or judgment. Nevertheless, his device, however clumsy, is the
first step toward the principle of the photographic camera."

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