Basic Photography/The camera  From Wikibooks, open books for an
open world Jump to: navigation, search  Origins of the
camera[edit]  Someone's god allegedly said...[edit]  Brahmā, the
Hindu creator, with his characteristic four heads, in
simple/false perspective.)  "Let there be light!" Most
philosophies, religious or otherwise, presuppose some sort of
creation myth. For scientists it's a big bang, for monotheists
the big guy upstairs, and for other traditions it can be giant
animals or god-like beings who thrashed the earth or oceans in
to being in a fit of anger, love, fun, or some such verb of
probably far from random selection. In any case, when creating
art, we are creating a finite world: that is, one with edges.
Artists usually call this the 'frame', but in fact some of them
decided to make a point of using jars full of poo instead,[1] so
the frame became transparent ... which requires transparent
things like glass, which are lenses and haven't been invented
yet, so perhaps we're getting ahead of ourse