LINCOLN PARK — Arguably the world's most interesting shipping container will be shooting photos in Lincoln Park Wednesday afternoon.
The "Liminal Camera", a mobile camera made out of a shipping container, will be parked outside the DePaul Art Museum Wednesday.
The Los Angeles-based Metabolic Studio created the Liminal Camera, a massive mobile camera obscura, as part of an ongoing project to map and depict the American landscape.
The camera is essentially a shipping container with a hole in the side to allow light through.
Camera obscuras are thought to be the original form of cameras and are often called pin-hole cameras.
Guests at Wednesday's event will be able to step inside the camera and watch the development process during a live demo.
The event at the DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton Ave., will be held from 4 to 8 p.m.
The large-scale prints that will be produced while the camera is in Chicago will be put on display at the DePaul museum in 2015.
The Liminal Camera will be making a number of other stops around the city during the Chicago Humanities Festival including at Millennium Park Nov. 1 and at the Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior St., Nov. 2.
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