Vermeer's Camera Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces

"It doesn't answer every question about Vermeer....In its chief thesis..., it may even be dead wrong. Yet reading about how Vermeer might have used [a camera obscura] presents, at least in Steadman's telling, an experience that is closer to how we absorb the painter's intense, spooky, and perfectionistic work than [other] accounts....Steadman's findings ring true. There's a poetic inevitability to his account."Steadman, Philip is the author of 'Vermeer's Camera Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces', published 2002 under ISBN 9780192803023 and ISBN 0192803026.