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
Photo Info:
“Exodus”
Photo By: Georgia Krawiec
HP.2012.15.496
Excerpt from:
Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application
by: Eric Renner
Theodore Corrick Livery Stable and Santa Fe Auto Company
Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico - ca 1916
Photo By: T. Harmon Parkhurst
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
Photo Info:
“Red Pepper Pinhole Camera”
Photo By: Eric Renner
More Info:
Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application
by: Eric Renner
Sign Welcoming Governor Otero
6th Street and Douglas Avenue, Las Vegas, New Mexico - 1897
I am fascinated by the purity of gesture in ‘frugal’ photography, with no optical barriers, no view-finder, no shutters or distances or heights and the equally pure but not at all frugal-on the contrary, clamorous-image reflected. Volumes and geometric perspectives take shape through a pencil mark made ‘transparent’ by a pinhole and, by looking ‘through’ it, an image with a peculiar ‘fidelity’ of its own may be seen.
-Paolo Gioli
Photo Info:
La Giostra Stenopeica, Italy
Photo By: Paolo Gioli
Excerpt from:
Paolo Gioli, Pinhole Journal (1996)
More Info:
Pinhole Photography: From Historic Technique to Digital Application
by: Eric Renner
