Camera obscura photography

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I made my first picture using camera obscura techniques in my darkened living room in 1991.

What's old is new again.

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.

An exhibition about the photographs of Abelardo Morell.

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