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Camera Obscura, 19th Century

A camera obscura is an optical device that led to photography and the photographic camera. 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, inverted (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. Such cameras were later adapted by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot for creating the first photographs.

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Title: Camera Obscura, 19th Century

Caption: A camera obscura is an optical device that led to photography and the photographic camera. 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, inverted (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. Such cameras were later adapted by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot for creating the first photographs.

Personalities: TALBOT • DAGUERRE

Category: ILLUSTRATION • black & white • Science: History

Credit: Album / Science Source / NYPL

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Image size: 4200 × 3184 px | 38.3 MB

Print size: 35.6 × 27.0 cm | 1653.5 × 1253.5 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: 19TH CENTURY • AMERICA • AMERICAN • APPARATUS • ART • ARTWORK • BLACK & WHITE • BW • CAMERA OBSCURA • CAMERA • CELEBRITIES • CELEBRITY • DAGUERRE • DARKROOM • DEVICE • DRAWING • ENGRAVING • EQUIPMENT • FAMOUS PEOPLE • FAMOUS • FOTOGRAFIA • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • ILUSTRATION • IMPORTANT • INVENTION • MACHINE • MOMENT IN TIME • NIÉPCE • NOTABLE • OPTICAL • OPTICS • PERSPECTIVE • PHOTO • PHOTOGRAPH • PHOTOGRAPHIE • PHOTOGRAPHY • PHOTOS • SCIENCE • SCIENCE: HISTORY • SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN • TALBOT • TECHNOLOGICAL • TECHNOLOGY • UNITED STATES • US • USA • WELL-KNOWN