The word “camera” is a shortening of “camera obscura”, the Latin for “dark room”, as some early such devices were darkened rooms in which the image was projected onto a rear wall.

Morell next set the challenge of photographing the apparition-like image that forms inside a room that's been turned into a camera obscura. To his knowledge this had never been done before.

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While the evolution of photography has gone on for a very long time — with the first film cameras appearing in the 1800s — the fundamental principles behind it have actually been known for ...

Camera Obscura: Yes, that was filmed in the back room at DNA Lounge. The "Star Spangled Banner" scene ... from around the time of the filming that you found inspirational? Oh my gosh, yes! These ...

Edition 13/15 + 2 APs from a sold out edition. 32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm.) Frame: 41.25 x 48.75 x 2 in. (104.78 x 123.82 x 5.08 cm.) This edition is sold out. Abelardo Morell photographs the ...

Of course, a camera obscura is really just a dark room — that’s literally what it means in Latin — with a small aperture to admit light from the outside world. This projects an inverted ...

Morell needed it to negate as much light as possible because he makes photographs using a “camera obscura” — literally, a dark room. The earliest written account of a camera obscura was ...