Pinhole Photography, Fourth Edition: From Historic Technique to Digital Application by Eric Renner

Author:Eric Renner
Language: pt
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: 9780240810478, # Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 2012-06-09T16:27:57+00:00

CHAPTER 4

Pinhole Photography

picture ” of the town exploding in a nuclear strike—glass lenses would have molten with the heat.

To this end, we founded an association in 1984. We thought that this might be the only way to secure the means necessary to fi nance the work in form of donations. It did not turn out this way. The simplest administrational task asked too much of us so that the association dissolved in 1987. It is astonishing that we actually planned to put up the cameras—to approach the idea as mere fi ction or as a mental model apparently not being an option we considered. I think, all of that was utterly serious to us. 19

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FIGURE 4.27

© Thomas Bachler and

the association, drawing of planned camera

obscuras , 1984. From

the collection of the

photographer.

NOTES

1

. Lauren Smith , The Visionary Pinhole ( Salt Lake City, UT : Gibbs, Smith Publishers , 1985) , 10 .

2 . Carl G. Jung , Man and his Symbols ( New York : Doubleday , 1983) , 67–68 .

3 . Kyzlasov to Vilmos Dioszegi in “Tracing Shamans in Siberia ” (The Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1968) in James Hughes, Altered States: Creativity Under the Infl uence (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999), 19.

4 . Janet Koplos , “ Made in Japan ,” Afterimage , 16 ( 1989) : 20 .

5 . Mai Misfeldt , “ Silent History ,” Katalog , 19.2, 2007 , 39 .

6 . “ Det mørke kammer, ” interview with Pia Arke by Synne Rifbjerg, Weekendavisen, 20.04.99.

7 . A Camera in a Room: Photographs by Abelardo Morell , ed. by Constance Sullivan and Amy Pastan (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995), 7.

8 . Eric Renner , American Disguise ( San Lorenzo : Flying Monkey Press , 2007 ) , 131 .

9 . Thomas Bachler , Arbeiten mit der Camera Obscura ( Kassell, Germany : Lindermanns Verlag , 2001 ) , 71.

10 . Ilan Wolff, Camera Obscura at Work 1982–1997 , (Seyssel, France: self-published, 1998), 24.

11 . Jori Finkel , “Standing in the Dark, Catching the Light ,” New York Times, Art Section , October 22, 2006 , 1 .

12 . Jori Finkel , “Standing in the Dark, Catching the Light ,” New York Times, Art Section , October 22, 2006 , 1 .

13 . Shi Guorui, personal communication to the author.

14 . Elizabeth F. Spungen, grackleworld.com, welcome page, Taken With Time: A Camera Obscura Project .

15 . Vera Lutter, “Interview: Vera Lutter by Peter Wollen, ” Bomb (Fall, 2003): 51 .

16 . Vera Lutter, “Interview: Vera Lutter by Peter Wollen, ” Bomb (Fall, 2003): 50 .

17 . Jerry Burchfi eld unpaginated, The Legacy Project press release to the author August 27, 2007.

18 . Jerry Burchfi eld (unpaginated, The Legacy Project press release to the author) “The World’s Largest Photograph—Controversies about Meaning, ” August 27, 2007.

19 . Thomas Bachler , Arbeitum mit der Camera Obscura ( Stuttgart: Lindemanns Verlag , 2001 ) , 43 .

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