Lomography

pinhole Camera, Jonathan Polkest artist

As far back as the 4th century BC Greeks such as Aristotle and Euclid wrote on naturally occuring rudimentary pinhole cameras. For example, light may travel through the slits of wicker baskets or the crossing of tree leaves, The ancient Greeks, however, believed that vision is enabled by rays emitted from the eye. The discovery that vision results from rays entering the eye rather than being emitted by it enabled a much better understanding of the pinhole camera effect. It was the 10th century Muslim physicist, astronomer and mathematician Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), who published this idea in the BOOK OF OPTICS in 1021 AD .He also invented the first recorded Pinhole Camera after realizing that the smaller pinhole - the sharper the image,(though - the less light).He designed the first Camera Obscura as a spin off of his initial discoveries.he is credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical to an experimental basis.