Pinhole Photography
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Author: Author UnknownEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-12-28
ISBN: 0240802314
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Focal Press
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Book Review: A wonderful historical resource, not a "how-to" book.
Summary: 4 Stars
When I first received this book, I was a bit disappointed. I'm just starting out in pinhole photography, and I wanted my hand held while learning the ins and outs of this new skill. This book doesn't do that. After it sat around for a few days, I picked it back up and started actually reading it. What the book DOES, is give you a wonderful historical perspective of this most unusual and artistic art form...because that's what pinhole photography is, an art. Photography in general, especially digital photography, is SO controlled and SO exact, that it's lost a lot of it's magic. While certain scientific aspects of pinhole photography can exert a meaningful amount of control over the subject at hand, in it's heart of hearts it is still a wild and free spirit making images however and wherever it desires. Where else can you make an image by putting a piece of film in your MOUTH and using your lips as the aperture? Where else can you make a camera out of a shopping bag, a purse, a hole in the ground, a red pepper? (Dark red works best by the way.) This book gives you all these examples along with rich and varied historical perspective into this most fascinating aspect of the photographic world. If you are a serious pinhole photographer (...or have intentions of being one), you owe to yourself to read this book. It's not a "how to" book by any means, but it is a "where you came from" book of the 1st degree.
Summary of Pinhole Photography
* The definitive book on pinhole photograpyhy by one of the world's foremost authorities * Beautifully illustrated with more than 170 colour and black and white photographs and line art * Includes an invaluable source guide of suppliersIn this digital age, more and more photographers are rediscovering traditional artistic methods, and Pinhole Photography is both an entertaining illustrated history and a practical how-to guide to this unique photographic genre. Detailed, easy-to-read
chapters explain how to create pinhole cameras and images and how to manipulate pinhole images using a variety of photographic techniques. Eric Renner is the founder and director of Pinhole Resource, a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing
information about pinhole photography. He is also founder and co-editor of The Pinhole Journal, published three times yearly. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Central and South America and Europe.
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