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Just for the record, camera obscura is Latin for “dark chamber.”
Diary Palahniuk, Chuck 2003
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The camera obscura is a tangible representation of a different way of looking.
An interview with Tracy Chevalier about Girl With A Pearl Earring 2010
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As a technology the camera obscura is a close avatar of television, or film.
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The camera obscura is expensive for something without electrical parts
CAMERA OBSCURA Maggie Jochild 2007
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Bibliodyssey, a site devoted to rare old books and materia obscura, is one of my favorite blogs.
- Boing Boing 2006
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_ -- I send you an early notice of the camera obscura, which is to be found in vol.vi. of the _Nouvelles de la
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Vermeer was a pioneer is the use of optical tools such as the camera obscura.
Guggenheim Bilbao Shows Dutch Masterpieces Mariana Schroeder 2010
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Jacobsen's latest body of work, influenced by sources from the spiritual guru Ram Dass and Grudjieff to William Morris the textile designer and socialist who revived traditional methods of production, addresses contemporary culture's valuation of technology and investigates one of the oldest of visual technologies, the camera obscura.
Alexander Adler: Jacobsen's Counter and Culture Alexander Adler 2011
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Jacobsen's latest body of work, influenced by sources from the spiritual guru Ram Dass and Grudjieff to William Morris the textile designer and socialist who revived traditional methods of production, addresses contemporary culture's valuation of technology and investigates one of the oldest of visual technologies, the camera obscura.
Alexander Adler: Jacobsen's Counter and Culture Alexander Adler 2011
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The Italian artist has long been suspected of turning his studio into a giant camera obscura, punching a hole in the ceiling to help project images on to his canvas.
Caravaggio may have been the first master of photographic technique The Nag 2009
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