Beverages and food………….and the actual 30 year old balsa wood camera on display.
Camara Obscura is simply a box with a precise hole in it that allows exterior light into the box striking photographic paper and recording the exact image upside down on the paper--a principle that goes back to Aristotle.
Camera Obscura photos on view at Ceres Bakery
Local landscape architect, Terrence Parker has resurrected his 30 year old works of Camara Obscura with the printing and framing assistance of Live Free Photography. The Pin Hole photos, from a hand built balsa wood camera, are on view through May 31 at the Ceres Bakery in Portsmouth.
Camara Obscura is simply a box with a precise hole in it that allows exterior light into the box striking photographic paper and recording the exact image upside down on the paper--a principle that goes back to Aristotle.
These photos where taken by Parker during graduate school in Athens, GA when he was looking for a perspective change from his studies in landscape architecture at UGA. "I just walked over to the art building and into the photo department and never knew that all they did was pin hole photography. I was thrilled by the challenge of taking images, one at a time, some of them are six minute exposures"
The images at Ceres Bakery focus on doorways and thresholds including the burnt-out shell of of nightclub where REM performed in their early years in Athens.
