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A darkened room or box in which light through a small hole projects an inverted image of the outside. Known since antiquity, it is the ancestor of the camera.
I've always been interested in mathematical perspectives and the distortions of camera obscura because of its potential for the magical and for its expressive quality.
Claudia Hart, Claudia Hart on Land of the Dead
The history of art is also the history of art-making technologies. I think of Albrecht Durer’s projection grid from the 1500s and Johannes Vermeer using a camera obscura in the 1600s.
Travess Smalley, Travess Smalley Profiles Mark Wilson