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.
— Read on publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-modern-camera-obscura/
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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura — The Public Domain Review
Posted: July 31, 2025 in My Weekly Reader, UncategorizedTags: from Public Domain Review
sometimes it is true
Posted: January 20, 2025 in PIC o' the Crop, Selected Photography Over the Years, Uncategorizeda picture is worth a thousand words
A great Lewis Hyde Essay
Posted: September 24, 2023 in My Weekly Reader, Observations of Nature, Readings, UncategorizedSo last week I played segments of this very rare CD (10 of 30) on my radio show….I guess someone really wanted it…it was stolen from my home in less than 2 days….some people just aren’t “people”
A couple more
Posted: August 26, 2023 in Selected Photography Over the Years, UncategorizedTags: flowers, surreal
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