<html><img src="www.i.imgur.com/zkxohtZ.jpg" alt="A large, albeit unfocused, camera obscura image">\n</html>\n\nIn the 13th and 14th centuries the camera obscura was still true to its latin name: a dark room. Observers would enter the room to get a better look at whatever it was that needed observing, whether that be a model for sketching, a cadaver for examining, or a cityscape for simple viewing.\n\n[[Choose a different time to use a camera obscura|Choice]]\n\n<html> Check out this <a href="www.abitflashy.wordpress.com/timeline">timeline about cameras</a> </html> for more information and sources.
<html><img src="www.i.imgur.com/zPWpTL0.jpg" alt="15th century art">\n</html>\n\nThe show box was a more modern incarnation of the camera obscura, the camera being contained to a portable format. The show box contained one image at a time, usually a small piece of art.\n\n\n[[Choose a different time to use a camera obscura|Choice]]\n\n<html> Check out this <a href="www.abitflashy.wordpress.com/timeline">timeline about cameras</a> </html> for more information and sources.
<html><img src="www.i.imgur.com/K5ZdGEU.jpg" alt="Great sketch">\n</html>\n\nThough various versions of the camera obscura had existed since centuries BC, the only way of perserving an image created by a camera obscura remained hand-sketching the projection. This is an example of an image that you perhaps sketched in your infinite free time. (It's the 17th century, what else is there to do aside from actively avoiding scurvy.)\n\n[[Choose a different time to use a camera obscura|Choice]]\n\n<html> Check out this <a href="www.abitflashy.wordpress.com/timeline">timeline about cameras</a> </html> for more information and sources.
[img[www.i.imgur.com/sYpNDKv.jpg]]\n\nPerhaps you, like Aristotle, were taking a stroll during a solar eclipse and noticed the ground. Hundreds of small crescents of light illuminated beneath a tree.\nAristotle noted that the spaces between branches and leaves created many tiny holes for the light to filter through, acting as a natural pinhole camera.\n\n[[Choose a different time to use a camera obscura|Choice]]\n\n<html> Check out this <a href="www.abitflashy.wordpress.com/timeline">timeline about cameras</a> </html> for more information and sources.
<html><img src="www.i.imgur.com/0lg4LCA.jpg" alt="This camera obscura comes with a parental advisory">\n</html>\n\nOh my.\n\n<html>It seems you, like many of your more fortunate friends, have acquired a <i>personal</i> camera obscura, for use in your home. The small size, maybe concealed as a book, lets you transport your camera obscura anywhere you want: <br>\noutdoors to enjoy fresh air, <br>\nthe parlour to show off to your friends, <br>\nthe kitchen to grab a snack, <br>\nthe bedroom...</html>\n\n\n[[Choose a different time to use a camera obscura|Choice]]\n\n<html> Check out this <a href="www.abitflashy.wordpress.com/timeline">timeline about cameras</a> </html> for more information and sources.
Duing what time period are you using your camera obscura?\n\n[[4th Century BC|BC]]\n[[13th or 14th Century|13]]\n[[15th Century|15]]\n[[17th Century|17]]\n[[18th Century|18]]\n[[Present Day|Present]]\n\n<html><i>Be sure to scroll to the bottom of each page to get all the info!</i></html>
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. \n\nCarl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. \n\nThe same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. \n\n[[The camera obscura.|Choice]]\n\nNot the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.\n\n- Chuck Palahniuk
Sam Godfrey
Using a camera obscura
<html><img src="www.i.imgur.com/eTFAkSO.jpg" alt="Aberlardo Morell">\n</html>\n\nThis is the view from one of Abelardo Morell's camera obscurae. The Cuban artist has an <html> <a href="www.abelardomorell.net/posts/camera-obscura/">entire collection</a> </html> of inventive images created using full-room camera obscurae, often featuring famous cityscapes.\n\n[[Choose a different time to use a camera obscura|Choice]]\n\n<html> Check out this <a href="www.abitflashy.wordpress.com/timeline">timeline about cameras</a> </html> for more information and sources.