A Camera Obscura at the heart of Arles' historic monuments

Place de la République 13200 Arles

An introduction to the optical phenomenon of the camera obscura at the heart of a monument in Arles. A traveling installation. The Camera Obscura, a term from Latin meaning Dark Chamber, is the ancestor of the modern photographic camera. It is a black box with a hole in its wall that projects an inverted image of the outside scene onto the opposite wall. Already known in Antiquity during Aristotle's time, about 300 years before JC, this principle was described in the 10th century by the Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham. In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci explained the phenomenon…