In a dramatic photograph from September 1921, a prisoner lies sprawled against a wall in Kilmainham Gaol. His eyes are closed, his mouth open. Four hard-bitten British soldiers crouch around the body, ...

The city of Santa Monica has selected six LA County-based artists for the 2025/26 Camera Obscura Art Lab residency program, it announced on Oct. 10. The artists part of the 14-week residency program ...

Vermeer’s brilliant work of the 17th century has been speculated to have been created using mirrors, lenses or a camera obscura. The subject of Tim’s Vermeer, wealthy inventor Tim ­Jenison, set out to ...

Amazing photos show the world's oldest functioning camera obscura, dating back to the 1830s. Located in the Dumfries Museum's observatory in Scotland, the camera obscura has been functioning since ...

Secreted away beneath layers of paint in Johannes Vermeer’s “A Maid Asleep” (ca. 1657) sits a faceless man. The figure, now buried by rich, dark pigments in the top-right corner, was first detected in ...

Last year Camera Obscura returned with Look To The East, Look To The West, their first album in 11 years. Today Ducks Ltd. are sharing a cover of the beloved Scottish twee band’s 2006 earworm “Lloyd, ...

"I've been wanting to do a project like this for decades," Amherst-based Brazilian composer and multi-reedist Felipe Salles writes of Camera Obscura. The album combines jazz and classical quartets in ...

Tristan Duke uses Arctic ice and a unique technique to offer a fresh perspective on a world transformed by climate change. Artist Tristan Duke traveled to Svalbard, Norway, in 2022 to create camera ...

The camera obscura (Latin for “dark chamber”) was used to capture the image of the world before camera and film were invented. Using the physic of light, people project the outdoor image into a dark ...

Cameras were long ago overtaken by smartphones, but one class of camera, the "mirrorless," has seen a surge of interest in the past five years. Since 2019, unit sales of mirrorless cameras have grown ...

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, much ...

Thunderous applause greeted a multitude of performers — dancers, models, aerialists and more — at the conclusion of the opening performance of the 14th Annual Carbondale Arts Fashion Show, “Camera ...