Featured on PDR in the essay Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores the early modern fascination with this quasi-spiritual technology and the magic, melancholy, and dream-like experiences it produced.
Also appearing in the essay…
Illustration of a camera obscura
Artist
Date
1755
From
A Short Account of the Eye and Nature of Vision
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