23 Camera obscura Alex Mearns

Camera obscura

Alex Mearns Upper Sixth

For the Churcher’s to Campus (C2C) Art course students were given a word each week (in this case ‘viewpoint’) which they fused with another word from a list of 20 given at the start (in this case ‘urban’).

Urban Viewpoint

This photo of a camera obsucra has inspired my work for this project

Camera obscura

Camera (latin for box, chamber or room) Obscure (latin for dark) The latin translation gives us a clue as to what the camera obscura is. This was the first stages of the development of a camera in which a whole (later with a lens) projected an image onto a wall. Artists originally used the obscura to create accurate paintings of the landscape around them I visited the camera obscura last year and was able to take this photo of the image it produced of Edinburgh

Pinhole camera

A pinhole camera is photography in its simplest form. Inspired by the basic principles of photography, it is a quick way to capture a one-off image. The pinhole camera was inspired by the camera obscurer, being simply a lightproof box with a pinhole in one side

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Vera Lutter

Vera lutter is a photogarpher, that converts rooms and trailers into darkroom’s or large pinhole cameras. She exposes views of cityscaped or building sited directly onto large scale photgrpahic paper or light semsitive materials

My own response

In response to Vera Lutter’s work of transforming large spaces into pinhole camera’s, I decided to turn my room into a pinhole camera. To do this, I locked the door, turned off all the lights and blocked the window with aluminium foil. I then gouged a circular hole in the centre of the foil. The sunlight entering through the aperture in the foil projected an inverted image onto my back wall