
A Field Guide to Camera Species
- Publisher
- Rim Books
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN
- 9780473147358
- Specifications
- Includes a glossary and a technical section on building a pinhole camera
Covers 90 devices built since 1990
The definitive chronological guide to the ninety pinhole and slit devices built by Darren Glass since 1990. His work results from a blend of rigorously controlled testing and deliberate incorporations of accident. He has constructed a wide array of apparatus, from frisbees that expose film while literally being flung through the air, to static sculptural objects built to catch multiple viewpoints of stream banks. His lens-less imaging devices provide an unusually rudimentary form of the medium.
“Like early practitioners who transported giant glass negatives in wagon-darkrooms in pursuit of extreme resolution, I have made apparatus that is large, difficult to carry, and often intended for a single purpose.”