RE: camera obscura threatened

[Jim Dunn <jimmyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this info Simon.  I hope it's not considered 'off-topic'.  I
believe there is still a Camera Obscura in Edinburgh.  Perhaps Scottish
members would care to comment.  There used to be one on Mt Dandenong east
of Melbourne.  I haven't been up there for some years but I have feeling it
was demolished.

Tony Andrews

At 11:10 AM 6/7/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>                 Camera Obscura future cloudy
>
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Hi Tony and friends

Yes the Camera Obscura in Edinburgh is very much alive and not obscure...I
have a history of the camera in Edinburgh around here somewhere if anyone is
interested...

Best wishes

Jimmy


According to the book called Panoramania! published by the Barbican Art
Gallery in London 1988, the first person to coin the term Panoramic was an
Irish-born artist working in Edinburgh (Scotland) who developed the idea of
360° paintings. His first piece was a view of Edinburgh painted on the
inside of a cylindrical building

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Jimmy Dunn
Scottish Stock Photography
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