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Camera obscura, 1999 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Camera obscura, 1999
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Camera obscura, 1999 - Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, 2005 – 1999
Camera obscura, 1999
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, 2005 – 1999
Camera obscura, 1999 - Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, 2005 – 1999
Camera obscura, 1999
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, 2005 – 1999
Camera obscura, 1999 - PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv – 2011 - Photo: Dimitry Baranov
Camera obscura, 1999
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv – 2011
Photo: Dimitry Baranov
Camera obscura, 1999 - Dundee Contemporary Arts, Ireland, 1999 - Photo: Colin Ruscoe / Courtesy of Dundee Contemporary Arts
Camera obscura, 1999
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Ireland, 1999
Photo: Colin Ruscoe / Courtesy of Dundee Contemporary Arts
Sketch for Camera obscura, 1999, for the exhibition Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me s
Sketch for Camera obscura, 1999, for the exhibition Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me s
Inside the Spectacle
Inside the Spectacle
Camera obscura, 1999 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Camera obscura, 1999
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Camera obscura, 1999 - ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 2004 - Photo: Poul Pedersen
Camera obscura, 1999
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 2004
Photo: Poul Pedersen
Camera obscura, 1999 - i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland 2002 – 1999 - Photo: Einar Falur Ingólfsson
Camera obscura, 1999
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland 2002 – 1999
Photo: Einar Falur Ingólfsson
Camera obscura, 1999 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 1999 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
Camera obscura, 1999
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 1999
Photo: Franz Wamhof
Camera obscura, 1999 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 1999 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
Camera obscura, 1999
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 1999
Photo: Franz Wamhof
Olafur Eliasson, Camera obscura, 1999
HDV 16:9, 5:00 min.
Video: Shehrezad Maher, 2012
© Olafur Eliasson
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In evidence since the 11th century, the camera obscura is an optical device consisting of a small hole in the wall of a darkened room or container, allowing light to pass through which causes a projection of an inverted and mirrored image of the outside view. In Camera obscura, Eliasson's first work with this device, a mirror is used to reflect an image downward from above onto a vertical surface in the same way as a periscope functions. Here, as in the other camera-obscura works, a lens is used to focus the image on the surface.