1178 CHAPTE R 37 Â¥ Interference of Light W aves. source produces the original light beam and the two slits ser ve only to separate the. original beam into two parts (which, after all, is what is done to the sound signal from. the side-by-side loudspeakers at the end of the preceding section).
It was after using a camera lucida in 1833 that the the pioneer of photography William Fox Talbot began his attempts to fix images chemically. David Hockney has speculated on how great artists have used the camera lucida in his book 'Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters'. (for a very brief summary of some of these ideas, see his article in RA Magazine from Summer 1999).
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. He began copying other photographers' work in 1977. His image, Untitled, a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be sold for more than $1 million at auction at Christie's New York in 2005. He is regarded as one of the most revered artists of his generation according