[David Hockney's Secret knowledge]
By: David Hockney ; a BBC Production ; produced and directed by Randall Wright
Contributors: Films for the Humanities (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princteon, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Realism in art; Painting; Technique; History; Camera obscuras; Camera lucidas; Renaissance Painting; Painting from photographs
Other titles: Secret knowledge
Description: Investigation of how early painters used simple cameras to capture realistic images--400 years before the invention of the photograph. Examines works by Jan Van Eyck, Vermeer, Holbein, Caravaggio and Velazquez. Demonstrates methods using camera lucida, camera obscura and convex mirrors.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Title from OCLC record, disc label in error..

"BBC Worldwide"--Container.

Originally produced in 2001.

Photography, John Hooper; camera, John Middelkoof, Mark Treays, Stefano Di Murano; graphics, Pete Wane, Duncan.

Narrator: David Hockney.

DVD-R.