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An Ideal Eclipse, Part I
By Peggie Blizard
Located in Fairfield, CT
always used the tools at hand and of their time …. Camera obscura, compass, protractor, calipers, rulers
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Summer Flowers with Lavender Bells
By Peggie Blizard
Located in Fairfield, CT
for photographs is now virtually instant because of digital cameras and computers. Photoshop can
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media
Located in valatie, NY
environment. Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Books
Materials
Paper
River Scene with Boats and Rotunda Building - Dutch 18th/19thC art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Smoke Stacks Variation
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera. The ephemeral
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
59th Street Bridge
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera. The ephemeral
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Chrysler Building at Night
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera. The ephemeral
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Chrysler Building from Madison Avenue
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera. The ephemeral
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
World Trade Center
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera. The ephemeral
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Chrysler Building Through Window
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera. The ephemeral
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Autumn Garden Walk
By John Atkinson Grimshaw
Located in New Orleans, LA
and often used a camera obscura in developing his compositions. He strove relentlessly to perfect his
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Unis France Magic Projector / Lantern, wood label France
By French House
Garden
Located in Valladolid, ES
bellows you have to slide the aforementioned wooden box.
The camera obscura, for its part, has different
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Crystal, Iron
$2,515 Sale Price
20% Off
"Sprats" Dutch Still-Life Painting of Sprats, Fish
By Sasja Wagenaar
Located in Utrecht, NL
reflection on the dark background is a reference to the camera obscura. This dark room was used since the
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Luciano Castelli "Male Nude 1982" Neuen Wilden Berlin
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
front of the camera. He was a man, a woman, and neither, throwing himself into glamorous costumes and
Category
1980s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Pigment
Cuban American Julio Mitchel Statue of Liberty Photograph Silver Gelatin Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
., "Arts America" Program NICARAGUA
Camera Obscura Art School, ISRAEL
MONOGRAPHS
"Do you love me?" IVAM
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vanitas by Catherine Jansens (Born in 1949)
By Catherine Jansens
Located in Gent, VOV
adopted the use of the camera obscura, an optical device that has been used by artists for centuries to
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Michal Rovner Photograph, Photo Print on Paper Israeli Master
By Michal Rovner
Located in Surfside, FL
in photography and art in 1985. In 1978, with artist Arie Hammer, she co-founded the Camera Obscura
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Camera Obscura
By Valle Nieto
Located in Cathedral City, CA
An assembled sculpture by Valle Nieto from 1992.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$11,000
Camera Obscura: View of Florence Looking Northwest Inside Bedroom, 2009
By Abelardo Morell
Located in Atlanta, GA
24 x 30 inch Pigment Ink Print, Edition of 10
30 x 40 inch Pigment Ink Print, Edition of 8
50 x 60 inch Pigment Ink Print, Edition of 6
All sizes signed, numbered, and dated verso...
Camera Obscura: View of the Manhattan Bridge- April 20th/ Evening, 2010
By Abelardo Morell
Located in Atlanta, GA
24 x 30 inch Pigment Ink Print, Edition of 10
30 x 40 inch Pigment Ink Print, Edition of 8
50 x 60 inch Pigment Ink Print, Edition of 6
All sizes are signed, titled, and dated ver...
IAN RUHTER. From the
Color Field Project
, 2019
By Ian Ruhter
Located in Santa Fe, NM
silver test strips from camera obscura. Signed on prints verso. Total frame dimensions: approx 12 x 27
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Abstract Obscura
Located in NIAGARA PARK, NSW
The idea behind the artwork is taken from, camera obscura, being a darkened enclosure in which
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Ceiling Light Object "I.P.C.O." 2001 by Ron Arad
By Ron Arad
Located in Vienna, AT
LIght Object "Smartie Light"
"I.P.C.O." (Inverted Pinhole Camera Obscura)
by Ron Arad
manufactured
Category
Early 2000s English Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Fiberglass
orbs, Beaver Pond, archival photograph unframed
By Penelope Stewart
Located in Toronto, Ontario
hand and use as a lens to photograph through which like a camera obscura inverted the image. With the
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Orbs, Twin Pines, archival photograph, framed
By Penelope Stewart
Located in Toronto, Ontario
hand and use as a lens to photograph through which like a camera obscura inverted the image. With the
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cloche III
By Penelope Stewart
Located in Toronto, Ontario
reflection, a camera obscura of sorts. All these layers merge together and explore intrinsic paradox
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Cloche II
By Penelope Stewart
Located in Toronto, Ontario
reflection, a camera obscura of sorts. All these layers merge together and explore intrinsic paradox
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Cloche I
By Penelope Stewart
Located in Toronto, Ontario
reflection, a camera obscura of sorts. All these layers merge together and explore intrinsic paradox
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Utopia 7, 2014, hand coated albumen print
By Jennifer Schlesinger
Located in Santa Fe, NM
as an artistic medium - having influences from the age old camera obscura, to 19th century albumen
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Utopia 6, 2014, hand coated albumen print
By Jennifer Schlesinger
Located in Santa Fe, NM
as an artistic medium - having influences from the age old camera obscura, to 19th century albumen
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Utopia 2
By Jennifer Schlesinger
Located in Santa Fe, NM
as an artistic medium - having influences from the age old camera obscura, to 19th century albumen
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Victorian Silver "Castle-Top" Card Case Brighton Chain Pier Nathaniel Mills 1849
By Nathaniel Mills
Located in Sittingbourne, Kent
camera obscura. An esplanade with an entrance toll-booth controlled access to the pier which was roughly
Category
Antique 1840s English Victorian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Unique Collection of Forty-Nine Light-Box Framed Lantern Slides of WWI Interest
By Doe
Hope
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
Camera Obscura, the Magic Mirror, and various other contraptions that have captivated people for
Category
Vintage 1910s English Shadow Boxes
Materials
Smoked Glass
Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV: Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost
By Henry Fuseli
Located in New York, NY
cooper; but, possessing great natural abilities, he invented an ingenious camera obscura, and later took
Category
1790s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV: Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost
By Henry Fuseli
Located in New York, NY
cooper; but, possessing great natural abilities, he invented an ingenious camera obscura, and later took
Category
1790s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Abelardo Morell,
Houses Across the Street from Our Living Room
Camera Obscura
By Abelardo Morell
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Abelardo Morell, Coban/American b. 1948.
'Camera Obscura Image of Houses Across the Street from
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Photography
Materials
Paper
Camera Obscura: St. Louis View, Looking East, in Building Under Construction
By Abelardo Morell
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 30)
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Abelardo Morell was born in...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Abelardo Morell "Central Park..." Gelatin Print
Located in Astoria, NY
Abelardo Morell (b. 1948) Camera Obscura, "Central Park looking northwest in office", Gelatin
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Prints
Materials
Plastic
Cylinder Pinhole Ring
By Nissa Kubly
Located in Sante Fe, NM
camera obscura effect. These cameras can take nearly any form.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver, Brass
Tree ( Pinhole) Necklace
By Nissa Kubly
Located in Sante Fe, NM
camera obscura effect. These cameras can take nearly any form.
Positive Film –
In LIGHT + METAL
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver, Brass
Engine, Frankfurt Airport, Abstract Silver Gelatin Print by Vera Lutter
By Vera Lutter
Located in Long Island City, NY
To capture this image, Lutter transported her shipping container-turned-camera obscura to the
Category
1990s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Willows
Located in Columbia, MO
the late 1840’s. Using a portable camera obscura, various pinhole cameras, scans of detritus, and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Old Mine Road No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
the late 1840’s. Using a portable camera obscura, various pinhole cameras, scans of detritus, and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Observer
Located in Columbia, MO
Spiritualism in the United States starting in the late 1840’s. Using a portable camera obscura, various pinhole
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Hidra
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Sailboat in Greece
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Santorini, Summer Eve
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Four Trees In The Desert
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - The Flea Market At Sunset
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Jaffa Flea Market At Noon
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - At the Flea Market Old Jafa
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - The Oranges
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - Red Anemone Fields
Located in Paris, IDF
at Camera Obscura School of Arts, Beit-Svi Film School in Tel Aviv and in Concordia University
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mixed Flowers"
By Peggie Blizard
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
picture for you. Artists have always used the tools at hand and of their time. Camera obscura, compass
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Photographic Paper
Windsor Nocturne
By Henry Pether
Located in London, GB
, Pether uses a personal technique, covering his canvas with blue before using a camera obscura to obtain
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,309
"Quail eggs on Chinese porcelain plate" Contemporary Dutch Still-Life Painting
By Sasja Wagenaar
Located in Utrecht, NL
in her paintings. The strong reflection on the dark background is a reference to the camera obscura
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Chinese porcelain stacking of bowls and plates on dark" Still-Life Painting
By Sasja Wagenaar
Located in Utrecht, NL
effects in her paintings. The strong reflection on the dark background is a reference to the camera
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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