Every year on June 29, photography enthusiasts and professionals around the world celebrate Camera Day, a day dedicated to ...

A proper, functional camera obscura is, yes, a dark box, container, room, or what have you, but also with a single small opening on one side that allows light in.

Restoring historic photographs is often done in an attempt to get a glimpse of the colors and details that the earliest ...

The world's first photograph by Joseph Niepce. Taken from a window of his Le Gras estate at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, it was produced by exposing a bitumen-coated pewter plate in a camera ...

Though the first camera was invented in 1816, the first photograph we have a historical record of is from 1826. Using his prototype, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first official photograph in ...

Much later, in January 1961, Popular Science published instructions that leveraged the physics of the camera obscura to build a homemade coffee-can camera, combining unlikely staples with ...