Shi was using one long before he learned of the Hudson River painter. And to the disbelief of many, the contemporary British artist David Hockney has argued that painters from Van Eyck and Vermeer to Caravaggio and Ingres used camera obscuras to trace their imagery.Ĭole, too, had a camera obscura. Aristotle used one to observe the moon eclipsing the sun, while during the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci studied optics and perspective with the help of the device. The first known mention is in the 5th century B.C. That image also becomes negative, with light and dark areas reversed, when the photographic paper is exposed to the light.Ĭamera obscuras have been around long before photographic processes were invented. The optical device works by allowing light to enter through a hole and project a reverse and inverse image onto photographic paper hung in the back of the darkened vessel - no lens or shutter required. Shi has been traveling the world for more than 15 years transforming large spaces - box trucks, hotel rooms, weather stations, and even a watchtower at the Great Wall of China - into large pinhole cameras. Scattered on the ground were bundles of aluminum poles, room-darkening fabric, giant clips, and other supplies - including plastic waterproofing and caution tape to ward off curious hikers - that he’d hauled down an old rail trail and into the woods with the help of his wife, Wenling Zhao. On the morning he set out to build the camera tent, dressed in bluejeans, a T-shirt, and work boots and gloves, the artist pulled out a copy of Cole’s sketch for the 1826 painting “Falls of the Kaaterskill ,” held it up to the scenic vista before us, and nodded. Rather, he was thinking about the 19th-century British expat painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848), whose pastoral Catskill Mountain landscapes planted the seeds of the Hudson River School. Shi had more in mind than a spectacularly composed shot of the American wilderness. The artist counts Ansel Adams as an early influence, as one of the few Western photographers sanctioned by his art school in China, but Mr. Shi, 55, who moved from Beijing to the nearby town of Catskill in 2014, had spent weeks scouting the perfect vantage point, a shady spot across a leafy gorge from the falls. The tiny hole was to allow light in, and with it, an image of the falls that would gradually ripen on a large sheet of photographic paper pinned to the tent’s back wall.
The tent was, in fact, a camera obscura, or pinhole camera, built by the Catskills-based Chinese artist Shi Guorui. But if anyone dared approach it, one small clue gave away its real function: a hole smaller than a pencil eraser facing Kaaterskill Falls, whose perilous double cascade is one of the region’s most cherished attractions. Sheathed in plastic and cordoned off with yellow caution tape, it looked more like a crime scene than a camp site. Sometime last summer, a rectangular tent appeared in the woods off a trail in the Catskills. Get all three of the MixedUp creative 2019 Halloween releases for £25 (retail price £36.PALENVILLE, N.Y.
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