Francis Alys - The Nightwatch (2004)
“On April 7th, 2004, a fox was freed in the National Portrait Gallery. Its wanderings through the galleries were recorded by the institution’s CCTV system.”
Photographer Abelardo Morell brings that outdoors in Morell installs a lens or prism in a window and transforms an entire room into a camera obscura. The view outside is then projected on the opposing wall upside down through the lens and right side up through the prism. A long-exposure photograph captures the outside world as its projected within the room.
