Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1827, with a cutaway

of a camera obscura building

 “Light and Colour (After Goethe):
After the Deluge,” J.M.W. Turner, 1843
“Through the afterimage, the sun is made to belong to the body…”
“The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward
Infinity,” Odilon Redon, 1882
Marey’s photo gun, 1882
Eakins swimming with students, 1883
“Swimming,” Eakins, 1885
Susan Macdowell Eakins, 1883
“Arcadia,” Thomas Eakins, 1883
Eakins created an enclosed set, with a slit in the
top through which the sun lit the subject. The
background was black; he used a white axis with
markings one foot apart
 Thomas Eakins, A May Morning in the Park or
The Fairman Rogers Four-in-hand, 1879-80, oil
on canvas.
“Cowboy,” Frederic Remington, 1890
“Helene Fourment in a Fur Coat,”
Rubens
“Fragment of a Crucifixion,” Francis Bacon, 1950
“Fragment of a Crucifixion (after Francis
Bacon),” Paul Pfeiffer, 1999
“Morning After the Deluge,” Paul Pfeiffer, 2003,
single channel DVD projection
 Three Studies of Figures at the Base of a
Crucifixion, Paul Pfeiffer, 2001, metal armatures,
miniature video projectors, DVD players;
overall image size: 3.5 x 18.5 inches
“Sun and Wind on the Roof,” John Sloan, 1915
“A Windy Day on the Roof,” American Mutoscope
& Biograph Company, 1904
“The Barefooted Child,” Mary Cassatt, 1896