Pinhole photography : rediscovering a historic technique /
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| Author / Creator: | Renner, Eric. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Focal Press, c1995. |
| Description: | xv, 174 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2426263 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Pinhole's History in Science
- Holed Stones
- Early Pinhole Optics-Eclipses, Telling Time, and Optical Phenomena
- Noon-marks in Italian Renaissance Cathedrals
- The Pinhole in the Wave Theory of Light
- The Pinhole in Photography
- The Pinhole and the Eye
- Twentieth-century Pinhole Imaging in High-energy Physics
- 2. Pinhole's History in Art
- Brunelleschi's Pinhole Perspective Device
- Alberti's First Diffraction Camera
- Alberti's Intersector
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Anamorphosis-The Deception of the Eye
- The First Pinhole Photographs
- Pinhole's Popularity in Early "Pictorialism"
- August Strindberg
- Pinhole's Demise in the Early Twentieth Century
- 3. Pinhole's Revival in Art: The 1960s and 1970s
- Rebirth-The Late 1960s
- The 1970s
- 4. Pinhole's Revival in Art: The 1980s
- The Peter Pan Principle, or "I Can Fly"
- The Body as Camera
- Camera and Photograph as One
- Cameras and Images in the 1980s
- 5. The How-to of Pinhole Photography
- Making a Simple Pinhole Camera
- Loading the Pinhole Camera
- Making a Photograph
- Additional Mistakes
- Additional Possibilities
- Optimal Pinhole Formulas
- Making a Pinhole Turret
- Pinhole Camera Geometries
- Exposure Times
- Additional Technical Information
- Additional Hints for Building Pinhole Cameras
- 6. Zone Plates, Slits, and Other Apertures
- Zone Plates
- Zone Plate Cameras, Images, and Methods
- Pinhead Mirrors and Pinspeck
- Slit Apertures
- Other Aperture Alterations
- 7. Eye, Image, Camera, Mind: The 1990s
- The Shifting Image of Reality?
- 1990s Images
- List of Suppliers
- Index