1. 9/26 DO NOW: Copy Vocabulary: the name for this device
is a Camera Obscura which comes from the Latin language, meaning a dark room:
In days “of old” the Camera Obscura was used 3 ways… to study eclipses
Copy
the Notes below
without the risk of damaging the eyes by looking into
into the sun directly.
It was also used as a drawing aid, the Camera Obscura allowed tracing the projected image to produce a highly accurate representation.
It was also used for Entertainment in the Victorian Age.

3. How is the Camera Obscura being used here?

4. An artist is tracing the landscape!

5. How is the Camera Obscura being used here?

6. An artist is Tracing the image!

7. This painting by Vermeer is thought to have been made using the Camera Obscura device!
Officer and Laughing Girl Johannes Vermeer c. 1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 46 cm. Frick Collection, New York

8. Another 1658 painting titled The Milkmaid was done by Johannes Vermeer—one of the greatest Dutch painters who was rumoured to have used the camera obscura for his paintings.
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons

9. How is the Camera Obscura being used here?

10. Entertainment!

11. And how is the Camera Obscura being used here?

12. Camera Obscuras were still being used for
Entertainment after the invention of the modern day camera in the Victorian age (1800’s)

13. What time period could the Camera Obscura concept have started being used?

14. Archeologists think pre-historic man may have used this concept to trace animals on cave walls thousands of years ago!

15. The Problem in the early 1800s: Now how could you make the image permanent? But that’s another lesson!

16. Sit inside our classroom Camera Obscura and follow the directions on the Camera Obscura Worksheet for viewing the image you will see. Then answer the questions on the Camera obscura Worksheet as best you can, we will review the answers in our next class!