Camera obscura

The camera obscura – meaning ‘Camera’ from Latin, locked chamber and ‘Obscura’ meaning Dark, is exactly that, a darkened chamber. A small hole allowing bright light wa…

Abelardo Morell. Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street in our Living Room. 1991. Gelatin silver print. 17 7/8 × 22 1/2" (45.4 × 57.1 cm). Gift of the artist. 415.1992. © 2023 Abelardo Morell. Photography

Nancy Breslin tests a camera obscura lens from the Finnish company called Bonfoton and turns an entire room into a camera obscura.

These pictures began to form not only a person’s living environment but also to constitute an excursion into the mental landscape: reflections of memories, reveries, fears and dreams—delightful!

Official website of Olafur Eliasson and his studio: camera obscura • Tags • Studio Olafur Eliasson

By carefully boring holes in walls Chris Fraser creates beautiful light art.

Camera obscura, ancestor of the photographic camera. The Latin name means ‘dark chamber,’ and the earliest versions, dating to antiquity, consisted of small darkened rooms with light admitted through a single tiny hole. The result was that an inverted image of the outside scene was cast on the opposite wall.

Camera Obscura, 1979