This book is a pinhole camera and architecture photography
Exploring the architecture from other points of view it is necessary and why not start from the most elementary photography with a project that, simple or complicated, depending on who looks at it, represents abook that transforms into a pinhole camera.
From paper to photographic image and architectural space is the objective of a singular photography book that exudes pure art and design with the project calledThe Book is a Camera (This book is a camera) by New Orleans-born artist and designer Kelli Anderson.
A pop-up book
How could we put a camera in a book?… Well, combining a lot of imagination, geometry, a bit of origami and the concept of pop-up book (Denomination that refers to those three-dimensional, unfolding or mobile books in the sense that they are transformed) whose result is a camera obscura version fully functional and that performs snapshots quite acceptable.
The book It acts as an educational and simple element to help understand how photography worked, before we all had cell phones in hand and the digital world takes over the mentality of many.
The artist It sells the book on its website, so if someone is encouraged from HERE we can find it.
As a curiosity, the creative has worked on other Projects where he explores the three-dimensionality that comes from pieces printed on paper and the following work surprises a lot, a lot! I think the video explains everything …
The concept of Pinhole cameras
As a reminder, "Pinhole cameras" or dark cameras They are well known and used today mainly to understand the phenomenon of photography and image from a basic perspective.
This old invention that is constantly being remodeled, a photographic camera that does not use glasses and that we can do it at home, it has become a cult object before some photography professionals who want to recover the initial essence of the artisan photographer or simply as a "cool" item in your camera closet.
A manual to learn more HERE and a simple infographic to understand the concept is the following image.
In addition, Anderson explains on his page how simple it is make a camera obscura and provides instructions for you to do yourself. The artist has made available to everyone a digital file with instructions in PDF (under the Creative Commons license) to make your own pinhole camera.
It is not about discarding the digital world, but rather, to remember and recover the handwork or good work and an eye that investigates other points of view and other ways of seeing the world with a photo.
How to make a pinhole camera
Although the reality is that there are many manuals on pinhole photography and how to make a camera, we wanted to find something more interesting, with a good idea, that is original and that we can do with our own hands in the manual style. Although from the article for gif.webpts of architects we find the following model …
Following in the line of make camera obscura with crafts from HERE (At the bottom where it indicates Download) we cannot download the plans of the photographic machine to assemble the following … Easy and fast!
An example of pinhole photography
A perfect example of using the pinhole cameras photographing architecture or taking photos of natural landscapes in a professional style is from Mr. Wolff, one of the most representative photographers of this technique who also likes Spain a lot.
The best camera obscura - pinhole
For those who want to stand out in the neighborhood there are an infinity of proposals and different types of camera obscura with a truly spectacular design, although, in our opinion and for beauty, the Ondu Pinhole wooden camera it is almost perfect.
And you can also add a photography reel lifelong.
More information from the designers website…. HERE. So you no longer have an excuse to enter the world of manual photography and power to portray for the memory that hidden architecture that we like so much.
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