03 February 2008

IN THE DARK ROOM

The Camera Obscura at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California


In the camera obscura, literally the 'dark room', one enters a camera.  The small amount of light entering the aperture falls upon a surface, and the world beyond becomes a surreal, otherworldly, 'real time' feed.  And something happens in the dark ... pupils dilate ... a response associated with sadness, a melancholy moment, in time. 





Posted by JACKY BOWRING at 07:08:29 | Permanent Link | Comments (2) |
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1 - Great picture, Jacky. I think I saw something like that in Greenwich..without the little girls and the lady, though!

Hope all is well at your end.

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Written by: billoo at 2008/02/04 - 17:44:59
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2 - Yes, Billoo, there's one in Greenwich ... a few remnants of the Victorian and Edwardian examples still around the world. Most intriguing contemporary example is in the Garden of Australian Dreams in Canberra, Australia, designed by Richard Weller and Vladimir Sitta of Room 4.1.3 - it adds to the whole surreal spectacle of that place! (Comment this)

Written by: JACKY BOWRING at 2008/02/05 - 09:53:19
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