Marja Pirilä: Camera obscura/ Spiraali, 2006

Completion year: 2006

Technique: optical lenses, wood, card board, tracing paper

Size: 2x3,5 m

Edition: 1/1

Keywords: Camera obscura, Marja Pirilä, Petri Nuutinen

In addition to photographs I have made several three-dimensional camera obscura works together with Petri Nuutinen for photography exhibitions and public spaces.

Camera obscura (Latin: a dark room)
is a phenomenon in which, as light travels through a hole or a lens into a dim space, an upside-down image is formed there of the world outside.
It is based on the direct passage of the light and is a basis for the functioning of the eye and all cameras.
The magical quality of the camera obscura phenomenon has entranced people for thousands of years.
It has been exploited in both science and art for centuries:
by scientists for astronomical purposes and for the observation of optical phenomena, by Renaissance artists as a tool for creating drawings and paintings and by philosophers as a tool in their deliberations.

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