Capturing light: Creating pinhole cameras (Y11-13)

Students create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras.

Art and Science Curriculum: Capturing Light (Education at the Getty)

J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff

Students create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras. They compare and contrast a nineteenth-century image, photographs taken with a pinhole camera, and pictures created with a digital camera or camera phone.



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