Modern cameras don't have a tiny person inside making incredibly fast and detailed drawings of what's in front of the lens, ...

Magic, art or science? Film photography blurs the lines between these categories and creates permanent images from nothing ...

French inventor Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce is credited with creating the first permanent photograph in 1826. He used a camera obscura and a pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, an asphalt ...

“The camera obscura is the most primitive form of photography. It’s simple when you break it down,” said Zoe Vecchio, ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Something strange and wonderful happens when light enters a dark space through a tiny opening. Aristotle described the ...