I’ve often heard myself say that if I could make a photograph with just my eyes and brain and not this clumsy and noisy mechanical device, I would be very happy. Using a pinhole camera comes closer to this ideal.
- Martha Casanave
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Man on Cliff - Coastal Pinholes
Photo By: Martha Casanave
Excerpt from:
Martha Casanave, “Interview”, Pinhole Journal, Vol. 3 #3 (1987): 2.
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Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application
by: Eric Renner
My work merges aspects of photography, sculpture and conceptual art. During the past twenty five years I have created over one hundred and fifty simple cameras from a plethora of recycled objects. Using only a needle, tin foil, black tape and some film, I can make a functional camera out of practicly anything. I’ve made cameras out of coffee pots, maple syrup cans, suitcases, lunchpails, soup cans, file boxes; I even turned a VW van and an Airstream motorhome into giant cameras. On their own, these tools operate in a symbiotic manner photographing subjects which relate to the camera/object.: the suitcase camera photographs a hotel; the maple syrup camera photographs a log cabin; the coffee pot camera photographs a neon sign that reads “Good Coffee”. I use inexpensive lenses or pinholes to make my cameras.
-Jo Babcock
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Last Night of Chanukah
Photo By: Jo Babcock
Can scenarios of perception be created with the pinhole camera that were not anticipated by nature?
- Hans Knuchel, Camera Obscura, 1992
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“Eiffel Tower, Paris”
Photo By: Ilan Wolff
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Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application
by: Eric Renner
Seeing light is a metaphor for seeing the invisible in the visible, for detecting the fragile imaginal garment that holds our planet and all existence together. Once we have learned to see the light, surely everything else will follow.
-Arthur Zajonc, Catching the Light, Oxford University Press
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“Exodus”
Photo By: Georgia Krawiec
HP.2012.15.496
Excerpt from:
Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application
by: Eric Renner
Because it is red, this pepper simulated a small darkroom as a natural safelight for black and white photographic paper. The darkest red pepper worked best.
-Eric Renner
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“Red Pepper Pinhole Camera”
Photo By: Eric Renner
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Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application
by: Eric Renner