Pinhole photography : rediscovering a historic technique / Eric Renner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renner, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Pinhole.

Physical Description:

xvi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Focal Press, 1999.

Summary:

With the evolution and acceptance of digital photography, an increasing number of serious photographers are rediscovering older methods. Pinhole Photography, Second Edition 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 those images using a variety of photographic techniques.

Contents:

1 Pinhole's History in Science 1

Holed Stones 1

Early Pinhole Optics-Eclipses, Telling Time, and Optical Phenomena 1

Noon-marks in Italian Renaissance Cathedrals 8

The Pinhole in the Wave Theory of Light 13

The Pinhole in Photography 16

The Pinhole and the Eye 18

Twentieth-century Pinhole Imaging in High-energy Physics 20

2 Pinhole's History in Art 27

Brunelleschi's Pinhole Perspective Device 27

Alberti's First Diffraction Camera 30

Alberti's Intersector 33

Leonardo da Vinci 35

Anamorphosis-The Deception of the Eye 39

The First Pinhole Photographs 42

Pinhole's Popularity in Early "Pictorialism" 46

August Strindberg 49

Pinhole's Demise in the Early Twentieth Century 51

3 Pinhole's Revival in Art: The 1960s and 1970s 55

Rebirth-The Late 1960s 55

The 1970s 63

4 Pinhole's Revival in Art: The 1980s 73

The Peter Pan Principle, or "I Can Fly" 73

The Body as Camera 74

Camera and Photograph as One 78

Cameras and Images in the 1980s 82

5 The How-to of Pinhole Photography 109

Making a Simple Pinhole Camera 109

Loading the Pinhole Camera 115

Making a Photograph 116

Additional Mistakes 119

Additional Possibilities 121

Optimal Pinhole Formulas 123

Making a Pinhole Turret 128

Pinhole Camera Geometries 131

Exposure Times 143

Additional Technical Information 145

Additional Hints for Building Pinhole Cameras 149

6 Zone Plates, Slits, and Other Apertures 151

Zone Plates 151

Zone Plate Cameras, Images, and Methods 154

Pinhead Mirrors and Pinspeck 160

Slit Apertures 162

Other Aperture Alterations 164

7 Eye, Image, Camera, Mind: The 1990s 167

The Shifting Image of Reality? 167

1990s Images 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0240803507

OCLC:

41076352