Timothy Comeau

Vermeer Photograph (2006)

Vermeer Photograph

My Journal records that I did this on June 18th 2006:

In the evening I worked on trying to make Vermeer paintings look like photographs, since last night I was thinking about how they’re essentially hand-made photos, since the current argument is Vermeer used a camera obscura to make them. I think I was reasonably succesful with the Women Reading a Letter.

I was equally inspired by David Hockney's Secret Knowedlege as Tim Jenison, who was the subject of the 2014 documentary Tim's Vermeer: