The camera obscura – meaning ‘Camera’ from Latin, locked chamber and ‘Obscura’ meaning Dark, is exactly that, a darkened chamber. A small hole allowing bright light wa…
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.
Wonderful reproduction of hand colored engraved diagram of optics by John Emslie. This image features thirty-four color illustrations which refer to a range of scientific diagrams and to popular knowledge on the general topic of optics. Illustrations includes images of simple and complex lenses and their use in optical machines, the refraction and reflection of light, the color spectrum, and the anatomy of the human eye, as well as figures of a simple portable camera obscura and a magic lantern. Very high quality reproduction! Clean, accurate color and sharpness. Custom sizing available. -FINE ART PRINTING- Each print is made to order and hand printed in Portland, Oregon. Prints and layouts can be customized or edited to your needs, just add a note with your order or send a message with any questions. Vintage prints are meticulously restored to clean major stains or rips, without adding excessive processing, to make them accurate reproductions of the original. Prints are made with a top of the line archival fine art printer that produces stunning color and high detail giclee prints. Highest available permeability and quality. -ARCHIVAL PAPER- All papers are museum quality, heavyweight, acid free, and archival. -LAYOUT- Image is printed with a thin white border. Print layouts are formatted to seamlessly fit standard frame sizes and mats. If you prefer a different size border, please add a note with your order. -PACKAGING AND SHIPPING- All prints sealed and mailed in cardboard envelopes or tubes. Guaranteed to arrive in good shape or I'll replace it. Thank you! Please message me with any other questions, I will gladly customize an order to your needs. *Frames not included with listing
How To Build A Room Sized Camera Obscura (+ Timelapse)
By carefully boring holes in walls Chris Fraser creates beautiful light art.
These pictures began to form not only a person’s living environment but also to constitute an excursion into the mental landscape: reflections of memories, reveries, fears and dreams—delightful!
Image 16 of 24 from gallery of Camera Obscura / Mariano Dallago. Diagram 2
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We heard how dangerous it could get outdoors with all of the traffic-crossings, pollen, UV rays and so on, and so we decided to stay inside and paint our
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Maker: unknown Nationality: UK Medium: apparatus Size: Location: UK Object No. 2009.008 Shelf: room Publication: Other Collections: Notes: To view our archive organized by themes and subjects, visit: OUR COLLECTIONS For information about reproducing this image, visit: THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE
Marja Pirilä has been fascinated with the camera obscura process since the 1980s, when she worked extensively with pinhole cameras and even built a few cabin-sized contraptions.
How to make camera obscura from two cardboard boxes
I’ve admired Johannes Vermeer’s (1632-75) paintings for some time. While I was searching the web for more information, I came across a book titled Vermieer’s Camera, Uncovering the Truth Behind the…
How to Make and Use a Pinhole Camera Can Or Box Pinhole Camera A pinhole camera is a small, light-tight can or box with a black interior and a tiny hole in the center of one end. By using common household materials, you can make a camera that will...
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These pictures began to form not only a person’s living environment but also to constitute an excursion into the mental landscape: reflections of memories, reveries, fears and dreams—delightful!
Nancy Breslin tests a camera obscura lens from the Finnish company called Bonfoton and turns an entire room into a camera obscura.
The WedgeCam- a Camera Obscura for Your Scanner: Do you have a scanner that’s just collecting dust. We have come up with a great simple and fun project to convert this mundane device into a strange and wonderful digital camera. Hit the scan button and wait patiently (or not) to get an eerie lookin…
Abelardo Morell's images are enchanting and disorienting, as the spectacle of public life is overlaid upon the realm of private experience, and the two are shown to be inextricably linked.
Annabel Karim Kassar Architects shows in the Cortile 700 of the Università Statale in Milan "Camera Chiara", an architectural installation with two pavilions: Liwan and Camera Obscura.
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Developed by focused shutterbugs, this museum exposes visitors to more than 6,000 different cameras.
A small group of diverse students participating in the inaugural AA Visiting School Eugene were given the responsibility to design and build...
Are you just getting into photography and feeling overwhelmed by all the technical terms? Yet, you wish to grasp the basics before diving into sensor formats and focal lengths. What else is behind…
Photographer gift film student vintage photography cameraman lens eye weird strange print wall decor movie poster This is a movie still from the 1929 film, "A Man With a Movie Camera" shot by Dziga Vertov. Of all the cinematic trailblazers to emerge during the early years of the Soviet Union, Vertov was the most radical. He dispensed with story altogether. He loathed fiction films. “The film drama is the Opium of the people,” he wrote. “Down with Bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!” He called for the creation of a new kind of cinema free of the counter-revolutionary baggage of Western movies. A cinema that captured real life. Hence, this film is often called "the first documentary." Yet Vertov’s stroke of genius was to expose the entire artifice of filmmaking within the movie itself. In A Man with a Movie Camera, Vertov shoots footage of his cameramen shooting footage. THERE'S A RE-OCCURING SHOT OF AN EYE STARING THROUGH THE LENS. We see images from earlier in the movie getting edited into the film. This sort of cinematic self-reflection was decades ahead of its time. Created, printed and shipped directly by us in the USA, all prints arrive ready to frame. Each image we sell is the product of numerous hours polishing the original and is not simply pulled off the internet. We print in high resolution from high res scans or actual photographs we have collected. We use a state of the art commercial Canon Wide Format gicleé printer, not a home laser jet printer; this is how we can offer and directly ship large sizes. We print on the highest quality photographic paper available-Epson 260 gsm-using 12-color archival inks that are fade resistant for 100+ years. Our Epson Professional Premium semi-matte photo paper has a satin lustre-not too matte, not too glossy, just right. We include a 1/10 inch white border to prevent the lip of the frame from covering part of the image. We can omit or expand border by request. Watermark will not be on the print you receive. Custom sizing or other image requests welcome. ORDER READY TIME & SHIPPING All orders are printed to order and ship within 2-5 Business days via USPS ground advantage (fka first class) mail. Expedited processing and faster priority shipping class options are available at checkout. 4x6 through 8x10 sizes are shipped in rigid reinforced mailing envelopes. All other sizes are shipped in reinforced shipping tubes. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED We produce the highest quality professional photography print reproductions available on the market and pride ourselves on 5 star product and customer service. If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, just reach out on Etsy message so we can make it right! PRO TIP In printing, like so many other services, a lot of factors determine the quality of the reproduction. How thick (or flimsy) the paper is, the resolution of the original photograph, the expertise of the individual processor/printer and the time spent polishing the image to perfection prior to printing. Before you purchase a print from just any vendor, look to see if they use a third party printing service/drop shipper, or do they control the entire process by producing and shipping the print themselves? Do they use a commercial printer, or do they simply print on a commonplace laser printer like you would find at Office Max or in a home? What paper do they use? Note: Digital downloads are typically just pulled from the internet with no work done to improve their appearance. Both of us at AntiquePhotoArchive are perfectionistic artistic technicians and have decades of professional experience both in printing and in the interior and graphic design fields. We now have the privilege of operating our business out of our home. Not only are we professional, we are nice people with big hearts. A portion of our proceeds goes to housing, feeding and caring for the large panda population recently discovered in New Jersey. Because we all know bamboo can’t grow there ;-) Thank you for your visit and have a pandarific day! © COPYRIGHT 2018 AntiquePhotoArchive. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Proprietary Rights While the original photographs we have worked from are in the public domain and not subject to copyright, we have so reworked these images that they now constitute creative intellectual property and are thus fully owned and copyrighted by AntiquePhotoArchive. The images and original text contained on this, and any other site under the AntiquePhotoArchive domain, are the property of AntiquePhotoArchive and are protected by United States and International copyright laws. All copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property rights in this site, are the property of AntiquePhotoArchive. Any commercial use of this content without prior consent is a violation of United States and International copyright law.
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