Perspective doesn't exist

Perspective Bnu
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Conference - meeting
In this lecture, the photographer with a rich career will present his anti-perspectivist essay to contradict the overconfidence Westerners place in the principle of the camera obscura and, more generally, the photographic camera. He will attempt to show that perspective does not exist in nature, but that for almost seven centuries it has become a cultural concept of reality representation, accepted by all, whereas it is merely a physical effect produced by and in a box. With Camera Euclidia, the concept of another camera will be considered, one that is not perspectivist, with strange consequences...

Fri.07.03 | 18h | Conference | Auditorium | Free | Reservation required
Address
6 place de la République
67070
Strasbourg
+ 33 3 88 25 28 00
Tarif
Free entry with the Museums-PASS-Musées
Dates
On 07 March 2025
Friday: 18:30-20:00
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