Morell had come to Arles to take photographs in the places Vincent van Gogh painted 130 years ago ... “camera obscura” — literally, a dark room. The earliest written account of a camera ...

At the toughest, most turbulent time of his life, the Post-Impressionist painter was supported by an unlikely soulmate, Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles ... out, Van Gogh rented a room above ...