The Camera Obscura
A Camera Obscura is a photographical device that allows viewers to see a projection of images of their surroundings on a screen. It was one of the inventions that led to photography and the camera. The device can be made in many different ways, but they all serve the same purpose. To the left is an image of the box camera obscura. It consists of a box with a hole in one side of which light from an external source and hits a surface on the inside where the image is in the direction of the hole is reproduced but in an upside down view and with the colour and perspective more refined.
In class we made our own camera obscura's but instead of using a box, we used a tube brought from home, such as a kitchen roll tube or a pringles tube. As said before, every camera obscura serves the exact same purpose, and so the ones we made also created the upside down image, but in a more portable way.
Below is a video of the process of which we made our own camera obscura's and all the steps that we went through to create it. In total it took us about 10-15 minutes to make and so it is also a very convenient photographical device to make.
In class we made our own camera obscura's but instead of using a box, we used a tube brought from home, such as a kitchen roll tube or a pringles tube. As said before, every camera obscura serves the exact same purpose, and so the ones we made also created the upside down image, but in a more portable way.
Below is a video of the process of which we made our own camera obscura's and all the steps that we went through to create it. In total it took us about 10-15 minutes to make and so it is also a very convenient photographical device to make.
Alberdo MorellAlberdo Morell is a Boston Based Photographer, born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. When he was 14, his family fled Cuba to move to New York City. When he was 29, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University when he was 33.
He is well known in the photographic world for his camera obscura images that he created in various places around the world, of which he then photographed. He was awarded the Cintas Foundation fellowship in 1992 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1993. A documentary about his life and work was released in 2007. Books by Morell
To the side, some of his works can be seen. |
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