RECOMMENDED READING

BY CAMERA OBSCURA PROJECT RESEARCHERS

 

Sven Dupré

“Inside the Camera Obscura: Kepler’s Experiment and Theory of Optical Imagery” in Early Science and Medicine 13 (2008)

 

“Playing with Images in a Dark Room: Kepler’s Ludi Inside the Camera Obscura” published in Inside the Camera Obscura – Optics and Art Under the Spell of the Projected Image (2007).

 

Bob Jickling

Self-willed learning: Experiments in Wild Pedagogy. (PDF)

 

Petran Kockelkoren

Technology: Art, Fairground and Theatre,(2004).

 

 

AND OTHERS

 

Errki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, eds.

Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, (2011).

 

Lucy Lippard

Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics and Art in the Changing West,(2014).

 

Arnaud Maillet

The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art, (2009).

 

Laurent Mannoni, Werner Nekes, and Marina Warner, eds.

Eyes, Lies and Illusions, (2006).

 

A. Russell Potter

Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875, (2007).

 

Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak

Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, (2001).

 

Charles Stankeivich and Sophie Springer

The Centre for Land Use Interpretation: An Interpretive Guide of Dawson City

Download the PDF here.

 

Marina Warner

Phantasmagoria, (2006).

 

 

The Camera Obscura Project brings together an international group of artists and other researchers interested in cameras obscura, related optical phenomenon and the meeting places of: art and science, cultural and wilderness settings, learning and play. With funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada the Project is based at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B.C.