While the camera obscura effect has been known and documented for centuries, seeing it happen with an apartment keyhole has introduced many Reddit users to the phenomenon for the first time, ...

Early 'camera obscuras' were used by painters to devastating effect. Did Vermeer pioneer this technique to produce his 17th century interiors? Philip Steadman explores the man and the medium. For ...

Indeed, the word 'camera' is derived from the Latin for chamber; a reference to the darkened chamber that the camera obscura effect requires to work. Now, however, archaeologists investigating ...

A view of the Camera Obscura building, which was damaged during the recent storm, as seen near the Cliff House along Ocean Beach, on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

Dancer and choreographer Byron Perry is returning to a chance discovery he made 10 years ago, in which the world is revealed through a camera obscura.

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