DMJ 2 Contents
02 Canaletto’s Venetian Sketches
and the Camera Obscura —
Philip Steadman
29 Helen Dorey on Sir John Soane’s
drawing office
44 The Art of Measuring Images:
Albrecht Meydenbauer and the
Invention of the Photographic
Survey — Emma Letizia Jones
75 Pablo Garcia on the Zeiss
Stereoautograph
84 Pencils, Computers, Cameras:
Itsuko Hasegawa’s Instruments
of Distance — Ahmed Belkhodja
111 Laura Harty on Aldo van Eyck
and circles
114 Instruments of Uncertain
Occupation — Nat Chard
147 Philip Steadman on Isambard
Kingdom Brunel’s camera lucida
150 Grids and Squared Paper in
Renaissance Architecture —
Fabio Colonnese
175 Sue Palmer on Soane’s
instruments
178 On Lines Terrestrial and Occult:
Friedrich Gilly, Alberto Sartoris,
Adolphe Appia, and the Matter
of Perspective — Ross Anderson
195 Neil Bingham on the history
of drawing instruments
206 The Sun as Drawing Machine:
Towards the Unification of Projection
Systems from Villalpando to Farish
— Francisco Javier Girón Sierra
233 Rosie Ellison-Balaam on
Enzo Mari’s optical dynamism
236 Devices of Dream-Like Precision:
Tracing the Streets of Kyoto using
Photogrammetry and Layered
Drawing — Sayan Skandarajah
257 Paddi Alice Benson’s laser
drawings
266 Borromini’s Smudge —
Jonathan Foote
Publisher
Drawing Matter Trust
Editor-in-Chief
Mark Dorrian
Guest Editor
Paul Emmons
Editorial Assistant
Paddi Alice Benson
Drawing Matter
Maria Mitsoula, Sophie Wehtje, Matt Page,
Susie Dowding, Jackie Brooks, Rosie Ellison-Balaam,
Orinta Fowler, Cassandra Truan
Copy Editing
Elisabeth Ingles
Advisory Committee
Stan Allen, Brian Carter, Paul Carter,
Maarten Delbeke, Mark Dorrian, Paul Emmons,
Anthony Geraghty, Niall Hobhouse,
Olivia Horsfall Turner, Tim Ingold, Peter Wilson.
Peer Review Statement
Long-form articles submitted to DMJournal are subject
to a double-blind peer review process, involving two
readers. Accepted articles are subsequently developed
for publication in close dialogue with the editors.
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Cartlidge Levene
The Editors would like to thank:
Julia Bloomfield; Brian Carter; Cartlidge Levene
(Ian Cartlidge, Simon Young, and Ellen Jonsson);
Elisabeth Ingles; Perry Kulper; Nicholas Olsberg;
Tess van Eyck Wickham; all those who submitted
articles under the issue theme and the anonymous
peer-reviewers who commented on the texts.