Book description
A respected guide for creatives, artists and photographers alike, Pinhole Photography is packed with all the information you need to understand and get underway with this wonderfully quirky, creative technique. Covering pinhole photography from its historical roots, pinhole expert Eric Renner, founder of pinholeresource.com, fully explores the theory and practical application of pinhole in this beautiful resource.Packed with inspiring images, instructional tips and information on a variety of pinhole cameras for beginner and advanced photographers, this classic text now offers a new chapter on digital imaging and more in depth how-to coverage for beginners, as well as revised exposure guides and optimal pinhole charts.
With an expanded gallery of full-color photographs displaying the creative results of pinhole cameras, along with listings of workshops, pinhole photographer's websites, pinhole books and suppliers of pinhole equipment, this is the one guide you need to learn the craft and navigate the industry.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1. Pinhole’s History in the Exploration of Science and Ideology
- The Pinhole Archetype—From the Darkness of Caves and Holed Stones
- Early Pinhole Optics—Eclipses, Telling Time, Astrolabes, and Optical Phenomena
- Camera Obscura and Human Understanding
- Noon-Marks in Italian Renaissance Cathedrals
- The Pinhole in the Wave Theory of Light
- The Pinhole and the Eye
- Research into Optimal Pinholes
- Twentieth-Century Pinhole Imaging in High-Energy Physics
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Chapter 2. Pinhole’s History in the Exploration of Art
- Brunelleschi’s Pinhole Perspective Device
- Alberti’s First Diffraction Camera
- Alberti’s Intersector
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Anamorph—The Deception of the Eye
- The First Pinhole Photographs in Art
- Pinhole’s Popularity in Early Pictorialism: George Davison
- August Strindberg
- Pinhole’s Demise in the Early 20th Century
- Chapter 3. Pinhole’s Revival
- Chapter 4. The Body as Camera, the Room as Camera Obscura
- Chapter 5. The Basic How-To of Pinhole Photography
- Chapter 6. The Advanced How-To of Pinhole Photography
- Chapter 7. Alternative Apertures: Zone Plates and Slits
- Chapter 8. Digital Imaging with Pinholes, Zone Plates, and Alternatives
- Chapter 9. The Changing Pinhole Image
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RESOURCES
- Pinhole photography workshops
- General pinhole photography information
- Nonprofit organizations
- Events
- Online galleries specializing in pinhole photography
- Private individuals and small companies making pinhole products
- Commercial photographic suppliers carrying pinhole products
- High tech suppliers
- General websites on pinhole photography
- Individual pinhole photographers’ websites
- Websites devoted to pinhole photographers from individual countries
- Recently published books
- Recently published monographs
- Recent self-published books and museum/gallery catalogs
- Pinhole noonmarks, pinhole perspective devices
- Index
Product information
- Title: Pinhole Photography, 4th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136095337
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