A popular video circulating on You Tube shows the discovery of a spy camera and a microphone hidden inside a digital TV converter box. Such devices are part of a government and industry surveillance ...

The name "camera" comes from camera obscura, which means "dark room." Used as an early drawing aid, the artist would stand in a light-sealed room or box with a hole punched in it. Light would enter ...

The camera obscura is an old-school optical device predating photography. Comprised of a box with a magnifying lens or hole on one end and an angled reflective surface inside, camera obscuras can ...

“Step inside and see the world anew,” promises the silver and weirdly-shaped tiny building behind the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary. And it delivers on its promise: a new view of Small ...

Moviemakers have long been drawn to the edge of Santa Monica to capture on film the picturesque pier, Palisades Park and the blue ribbon of the bay. But Santa Monica offers its own offbeat angle on ...

Did the rise of photography prepare the way for Johannes Vermeer's rediscovery after two centuries of neglect? More than that, Philip Steadman argues in his new book, "Vermeer's Camera," Vermeer (1632 ...

This horror/thriller could have used more time in the darkroom. In photography, camera obscura is an optical trick that occurs when images are projected through small holes in walls, boxes or other ...

Artists and photographers may be interested in a new device launched via Kickstarter this week in the form of the Camera Obscura, which offers a modern yet traditionally finished “old masters’ secret ...