Bravo! Is there room here for some speculation about a basic esthetic of pinhole images? Not the blur alone because that occurs or can be achieved in lens work. To me some of the essential pinhole esthetic is illustrated here in showing how images change as they are photographed for different lengths of time, how with varying degrees of sharpness or of object movement one's eye is drawn to the larger shape, or to the mmoving gesture, away from surface detail, and the ease with which one can widen the acceptance angle well beyond what is ordinarily available with lenses, and free of lens-related distortion. Also, there is so much more about playful experiment in pinhole work than in nearly all lens work, and it is good to learn to play. I've lately gotten the mystical notion that light actively wants to form images, and that only by exploring a wide variety of methods and cicumstances for capturing these images can we really appreciate and understand what is in the air around us. ----- Original Message ----- From: Katharine Thayer <ktha...@pacifier.com> To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Some images
> Since I've enjoyed seeing other people's work, I thought it only fair to > show some of mine in turn. Here are four of the 8 pinhole images I'm > showing along with 15 lens photographs in my current one-woman show > titled "Catching Time: New Photographs in Gum Bichromate by Katharine > Thayer" at RiverSea Gallery, Astoria, Oregon, October 28-November 29, > 2000. > > Note: Looking at the images on the site, they all seem a bit washed out > (light) compared to the originals. > > > 1. This is the image that was on the announcement postcard for the show. > It was made with a 35mm camera body, the one with the malfunctioning > shutter. I later replaced this particular pinhole with a smaller one, > although most people like the images made with the bigger hole better. > > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/upload/images/kt17thstpier.jpg > > 2. This is made with a cardboard box, of fishing boats in the local > mooring basin. The box I used was longer than normal length. > > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/upload/images/ktfishboats2.jpg > > 3. This is the same view as 2 but on a windy day with the boats rocking > back and forth, taken with a shorter box. This is my favorite picture in > the show but I am aware that this much ambiguity and imprecision isn't > to everyone's taste in photographs. > > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/upload/images/ktfishingboats.jpg > > 4. Abandoned train station. Made with a briefcase-sized cardboard box, > very wide-angle. > > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/upload/images/kttrainstation.jpg > > > Katharine Thayer > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/ >
