question of the genealogy of the photographic image

photography before the chemical fixing of images

an argument against the "invention" of photography

crucial issue is surely the transformation of three into two dimensions

it looks like Durer's math was the first to establish this geometrically, in terms of solid forms and perspective

did he also set the foundations for the plan, elevation and section as being translations of three into two dimensions?

both the camera obscura and lucida are instruments for seeing three as two dimensions

Refinements of the clear mirrors that were only invented in the fifteenth century?

this is what Hockney and others have reflected upon - the new look of painting and drawing after the renaissance affected by new ways of seeing three as two

http://shl.stanford.edu/Eyes/hockney/

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/unit11.html

http://www.precinemahistory.net/1400.htm

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Durer.html

http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/durer.html

http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml