Camera obscura
The camera obscura (Latin; “camera” is a “vaulted chamber/room” + “obscura” means “dark”= “darkened chamber/room”) is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography. The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation.
By the 18th century, more easily portable models became available. These were extensively used by amateur artists while on their travels, but they were also employed by professionals, including Canaletto and Joshua Reynolds, whose camera (disguised as a book) is now in the Science Museum (London). Such cameras were later adapted by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot for creating the first photographs.
“Upside Dome”
Thin chains were hung from an installed structure above the structural supports of this church. This beautiful and untraditional structure was created in reference to the dome the church was never able to have because it wasn’t strong enough to hold up a traditional dome.
Amazing.
David Letellier, Tessel, 2010, installation, 400x200x300cm, kinetic sculpture installation
Striking Self Portraits by Kyle Thompson
Thompson takes self-portraits up a notch with his surreal and stunningly eerie style. Unafraid to take risks, he creates photos that are shocking. Almost more shocking is that he’s a pizza delivery man who took up photography only about a year ago. Look through his 365 project (he’s currently at day 155) and you’ll notice how his style and technique has quickly started to evolve.
[via mymodernmet]
Multiple shadow house, Olafur Eliasson (2010)
A simple, purpose-built structure, the work Multiple shadow house consists of multicolored lamps in rows shining onto several large projection screens. When a body enters the space and begins to interact with this light installation beautiful and subtle overlaid visions of their shadow fan across the screens – as they move around forward and backward the image is thus altered and can be manipulated. In this way the project is a creative collaboration between the artist, viewer, space and technology. via
I have developed these photographs directly from old, unused negatives in the lab at the Oxford Neuropharmacology unit. The negatives were originally exposed from an electron microscope, focusing on the neurons inside a small slice of rat brain.
Melanie K, MA Art & Science student, Central St Martins
A child’s skull before losing baby teeth a.k.a the stuff of nightmares
(via totwilk)
