This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Something strange and wonderful happens when light enters a dark space through a tiny opening. Aristotle described the ...

By the 18th century, many painters were using the camera obscura, or variations on it, to capture the subtle nuances of the human form, especially that most challenging of human expressions ...

A camera obscura is a very simple device. Consisting of a dark chamber, with only a pinhole to let light in, it focuses an image on its inside surface. If you want to take a permanent copy ...

Best of all, they reanimate a dialogue between photography and painting that seemed to have peaked in the 19th century ... he makes photographs using a “camera obscura” — literally, a ...

Abelardo Morell is a contemporary Cuban-born American photographer renowned for his use of camera obscura to capture land and cityscapes. The artists’s interest in the early technology came from a ...

Inhabited by bodies that question love and death to the limits of madness, that are heard but not seen, and vice versa, Camera Obscura reveals a particular form of appropriation of the work of ...

I’ve been following Ben McCarthy’s journey with Obscura since the app first launched in 2015, watching the app as it has evolved alongside changes to Apple’s camera hardware. Camera apps pose unique ...

Here you'll find top attraction after top attraction, including the Scotch Whisky Experience and Camera Obscura & World ... hasn't been used since the 18th century. The oldest remaining building ...

Over the past couple of weeks though, I’ve been moving between Apple’s Camera app and Obscura 2, which was released today by developer Ben McCarthy. I’ve used manual camera apps in the past, but ...

The Game Boy Camera is probably one of the most limited-specification digital cameras to have been mass-marketed, yet it occupies a special position in the hearts of many because despite being a ...

Visit Camera Obscura and World of Illusions You’ll find plenty ... is that there are underground vaults located below Edinburgh, and these date back to the 18th century. In fact, many of these vaults ...

Here you'll find top attraction after top attraction, including the Scotch Whisky Experience and Camera Obscura & World ... hasn't been used since the 18th century. The oldest remaining building ...