Morell had turned his classroom into a camera obscura, a dark chamber, the Latin name for perhaps the earliest known imaging device and the ancestor of the photographic camera. Explaining the ...

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 much ...

January: Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot presents to the Royal Society of London a paper on photogenic drawing, permanent camera obscura images made with photosensitive silver salts on paper.

Camera Obscura played the Bell House in Brooklyn last night, March 24th (check out the set list below). The band stays in NYC today for a show at the Mercury Lounge tonight (3/25). Camera Obscura ...

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 ...

If you're traveling with kids, there is no better place in Edinburgh than Camera Obscura and World of Illusions. Located at the top of the heavily (tourist) trafficked Royal Mile, Camera Obscura ...