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
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