Pinhole Photography Fine Art Photographers

Pinhole photography portfolio of photographer Thomas Hudson Reeve. The modern camera is a wonderful thing, but it s nice to remember how simple the mechanism can be. You can strip away the technology until there is little left but the abstraction on which the machine is based. A simple manipulation of space, a few materials, and a couple of hand tools and the magic physics is at your fingertips without sophisticated engineering. To simplify these cameras as much as possible I made them out of the 11x14 inch photo-paper itself. There is no film in the camera because the camera is the film. Like a salad bowl made of lettuce leaf, and consumed with the meal, the camera doesn t exist after its utility is fulfilled. There is no machine. It is more of an arrangement than a thing. Since it is color paper, sensitive to the full spectrum of visible light, there is no safe light recommended for darkroom work. Each paper box camera is cut, folded, and constructed in the dark and kept in a dark bag until its moment in the sun has come. The pinhole in the brass plate is all that is needed to project an image into the inside surface of the box more on that later , but light also seeps through the cracks and flaps of the box construction and soaks through the black tape that holds the whole thing together. The streaks and burns and flares that appear on the final image are the result of this ambient radiation and although it can be somewhat controlled, it also depends largely on random...

Rubrik: Fotografen :: Kunst Design :: USA -

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