The Art Institute of Chicago presents A View with a Room: Abelardo Morell's Camera Obscura Photographs, on view through October 16. The principle of the camera obscura (Latin for dark room) has been known since antiquity: that light passing through a small aperture in a darkened chamber will project, upside-down, the image of the outside world. The basis for all photography, the camera obscura can be a darkened room or a small, hand-held box'today's camera. The simplicity of this natural phenomenon makes it no less wondrous. As Leonardo da Vinci wrote of it, 'Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O mighty process!'
Since 1991, Abelardo Morell has been photographing spaces transformed by this... MORE
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