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Camera Obscura is a Latin term that simply means "dark room."A camera obscura is therefore nothing more than a dark box or room with a pinhole at one end, and at the other, the projected image, in color, upside down, of the world outside the dark box by virtue of an amazing natural property of light traveling through a small hole. Add a mirror and you can turn the image right side up or direct it, add lenses to magnify the image, warp it, or project it onto paper and trace the image as Vermeer did, as Caravaggio was rumored to have done. We are the dark box. Your work is the pinhole.

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic PublicationUnknown publication frequency.
Print Publication Print PublicationPublished 2 x per year.

Fiction Believed Defunct

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TypeLength Details
Flash Fiction Flash Fiction250 - 1,000 words.
Short Story Short Story1,000 - 7,500 words.
Novelette Novelette12,000 - 15,000 words.
Novella Novella15,000 - 30,000 words.
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No monetary payment to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pays occasionally, up to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word).
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TypeLength Details
Essay Essay250 - 8,000 words.
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No monetary payment to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pays occasionally, up to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word).
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Dates

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2020
Date Added: 14 Oct 2009

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