2007-01-01 Önder Bostancı

Camera Obscura

Light is the source, not only of life, but also of art. Man has desired to capture this elfish child of existence since the Dark Ages. Aristoteles was the first person to seek the domination of light, which is sometimes pursued in crystals and diamonds, in the dark. Who else but Aristoteles could have conceived that as small amount of light as can pass through a pinhole would preserve the image of the objects it passes by in its memory to then project the contents of this memory onto a wall situated in a dark room? Centuries later the ray that passed through the pinhole opened by this sage of Antiquity fell on a madman of the Renaissance. Master Leonardo carried the antique connection between light and dark into the Renaissance.

Without doubt, history is full of madmen searching for what is beyond the existent. One such half-shamanic, half-mad person was Joseph Nicephor Niepce. Having a passion for light, he succeeded in capturing the light on paper in 1826. This prison of light and time was named photography. In our time there are still half-shamanic, half-mad people who are after the light passing through a pinhole. It is to them that we owe our encounter with dark-box pictures designated “camera obscura” by Aristoteles. They offer us a different light, a different perspective, a different world…

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