Call for Entries!

Lightbox Gallery in Astoria is hosting the 2nd annual juried Plastic Fantastic exhibtion of photographs derived from... plastic or pinhole cameras. The initial capture must be in some analog form and the final prints may be in any process (analog or digital).
YOU should consider entering. Period!
http://lightbox-photographic.com/call-for-entries

A sad notice in the world of alternative photographic practice

Miroslav Tichy, the Czech outsider photographer, died on April 25th

http://www.lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/death-of-miroslav-tichy

Tichý wore rags and would make his own cameras out of junk found on the street - lenses from old glasses, tin cans, sewing spools, and old cardboard rolls from packaging. His prints were made at home from equally primitive equipment.
As Sarah Wichlacz writes, “this is what makes his work so damn appealing; it is not over thought and overwrought imagery made to please an academic gallery audience. Tichý’s techniques are interesting and unique; the subjects timeless and erotic.” Tichý knew what he was doing, however. As he himself said, “the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you’re doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.”

World Pinhole Day is Sunday, April 24th!

http://www.pinholeday.org

Rob's been "Pegged"!!

wow. our own rob beam and his pinhole 4'X4" has been reposted on the 'square peg pinhole' blog! how cool is that?!

Interesting short article about Vera Lutter and her pinhole suitcase.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/egypt-seen-from-inside-vera-lutters-suitcase-2267756.html

Untouchable

The HIV camera.
4X5 pinhole made from aluminum, copper, titanium, acrylic, HIV positive blood functioning as the camera's red filter. Designed to photograph people living with HIV and AIDS

Bloodworks 2. Silver print painted with prickly pear tea.

The tools I create and work with are pinhole cameras. With pinhole photography, the same air that touches my subject can pass through the pinhole and touch the photo emulsion on the film. There’s no barrier between the two. There are no lenses changing and manipulating light. There are no chips converting light to binary code. With pinhole what you get is an un-manipulated true representation of a segment of light and time, a pure reflection of what is at that moment. With some exposure times getting close to 2 hours, it’s an unsegmented movie from a movie camera with only one frame.

The creation of a camera comes from my desire to relate to a subject. When I choose a subject I spend time studying it. Then I start visualizing how I would like a photo of the subject to look. When that’s figured out, I start on the camera stage of the project by collecting parts, artifacts and relics that relate to the subject. When I’ve gathered enough parts and feel for the subject, I start the construction of the camera. I create the cameras from Aluminum, Titanium, Copper, Brass, Bronze, Steel, Silver, Gold, Wood, Acrylic, Glass, Horn, Ivory, Bone, Human Bone, Human Skulls, Human Organs, Formaldehyde, HIV+ Blood and relics all designed to be the sacred bridge of a communion offering between myself and the subject. All to witness and be a tool of the horrors of creation and the beauty of decay presented by the author light and time.
Wayne Martin Belger
www.boyofblue.com

truck pin hole

my new camera!

image is projected onto a styrofoam board (4'x4'x2") cut to wedge into place and easy to adjust the distance. pin hole was the diameter of a pencil.

Eye On New York: On Art « CBS New York

Eye On New York: On Art « CBS New York

Abe sent me this link this morning to a recent interview on a NYC news show.

Make a camera from Legos. Really!

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/03/31/working-4x5-camera-created-with-lego/