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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt derived from petroleum. After exposing the plate, he washed it with lavender oil and petroleum to remove the ...

It came to life in 1826, when a French inventor set up a camera obscura to capture the view outside his window. "Camera obscura" is a Latin phrase, which literally means dark room. The National ...

August 19 is recognized as“World Photography Day” in many countries, celebrating one of humanity's most significant ...

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 ...

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.