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==Controversy==

==Controversy==

In a 2001 [[television]] [[documentary]] titled ''Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters'', the artist [[David Hockney]] argued that the so-called [[Old Masters]] of [[Renaissance]] art had invented the camera years before Eastman Kodak in 1880. Hockney demonstrated how a "camera obscura", or "dark chamber", could theoretically have produced images such as the [[Arnolfini Marriage]] and the [[Mona Lisa]]. However, most experts agree that there is little to no evidence to support Hockney's theory, placing the camera obscura in the same fantastic realm as Da Vinci's helicopter or [[Fibonacci]]'s tower to the moon. Lacking evidence for Hockney's Renaissance theory, the photographic camera remains a uniquely American invention.

In a 2001 [[television]] [[documentary]] titled ''Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters'', the artist [[David Hockney]] argued that the so-called [[Old Masters]] of [[Renaissance]] art had invented the camera years before Eastman Kodak in 1880. Hockney demonstrated how a "camera obscura", or "dark chamber", could theoretically have produced images such as the [[Arnolfini Marriage]] and the [[Mona Lisa]]. However, most experts agree that there is little to no evidence to support Hockney's theory, placing the camera obscura in the same fantastic realm as Da Vinci's helicopter or [[Fibonacci]]'s tower to the moon. Lacking evidence for Hockney's Renaissance theory, the photographic camera remains a uniquely American invention.

[[Category:Inventions]]

[[Category:Inventions]]

[[Category:Photography]]

[[Category:Photography]]