暗箱室

In Latin, the term, “camera obscura” means literally “dark room.”

暗箱房 with upside down image of street
View inside camera obscura room of Pearl Street and K Lot, Fall 2021

暗箱房的附件 艾米H. Carberry美术画廊 on the campus of Springfield Technical Community 大学 (十大彩票平台), was conceived and built by 桑德拉·贝隆, Associate Professor of Art and Special Cultural Programming and Gallery Coordinator, in her former gallery office, and with the help of many of her photography students.

In this camera obscura, you can see Pearl Street, in full color and motion. This should sound familiar since the same is true, 以基本的方式, to how your eyes work to see or how a camera works. Five minutes is recommended to allow your eyes some time to adjust and you can enjoy the full effect of this educational and entertaining experience.

眼睛到相机图

a是什么? 暗箱 In Latin, the term, “camera obscura” means literally “dark room.”的 laws of optics dictate that light travels in straight lines and when rays of light reflect off objects outside a darkened room, some of those rays traveling through a small hole or aperture in a window, reform on the opposite wall; upside down & 向后!

This basic optical principle of light producing an image inside a dark room is first mentioned by Chinese philosophers in the 5th century BCE, 稍后讨论 亚里士多德 (384-322 BCE), and in 1490 CE, 达芬奇 gave an account of a camera obscura at work in his notebooks.

In the 17th and 18th century, artists like 维米尔 used a camera obscura as a drawing aid, and the dark room was reduced in size to a portable black box. 的 image that could be witnessed in this smaller camera obscura box was fleeting until the beginning of the 19th century when Frenchman 路易·达盖尔 announced the first successful, permanent fixing of that image seen in the camera obscura on light-sensitive material in 1839. With that discovery, photography was born.

After nearly 175 years of subsequent advances to image-producing technology, we now carry cameras like those found in an iPhone with us everywhere, posting photographs on 脸谱网 in nanoseconds.

暗箱室 is free and open to the public between September and May when the gallery is open and exhibitions are on view.