Exploring architecture from other points of view is necessary and why not start from the elementary photography with a project that, as simple or complicated, depending on who looks at it, represents a book that transforms into a camera pinhole type pinhole .
From paper to photographic image and space architecture is the goal of a photography book singular that emanates pure art and design with the project called The Book is a Camera It's a Camera) by artist and designer Kelli Anderson born in New Orleans.
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How could we put a camera in a book? … Well combining a lot of imagination, geometry, a bit of origami and the concept of book pop-up (Name that refers to those three-dimensional, folding or mobile books in the sense that I know transform) whose result is a camera version dark fully functional and performs some Pretty acceptable snapshots .
The book acts as a educational and simple element to help understand how photography worked, before everyone we had cell phones in hand and the world Digital captures the mentality of many.
The artist sells the book on his website, so if someone is encouraged from kellianderson.com we can find.
As a curiosity, the creative has worked on other projects where he explores the three-dimensionality that comes from pieces printed on paper and the following work very, very surprising! I think the video explains everything…
As a reminder, "Pinhole cameras" dark are quite well known and used today mainly to understand the phenomenon of photography and image from a basic perspective.
This old invention that is being remodeled constantly, a photo camera that does not uses glasses and that we can do it at home, it has been transformed into a cult object before some professionals of the photography who want to recover the initial essence of the artisan photographer or simply as an element "cool" in your camera closet.
A manual to learn more HERE and an infographic simple to understand the concept is the following image.
In addition, Anderson explains on his page how easy it is to is to make a camera obscura and provides instructions to do it yourself. He artist has made available to all a file digital with instructions in PDF (under the Creative Commons license) to make your own pinhole camera .
This is not about throwing out the digital world , but more well, to remember and recover the work manual or good work and an eye that investigates others points of view and other ways of seeing the world with a photo.
Although the reality is that there are many manuals on pinhole photography and how to make a pinhole camera photos, we wanted to look for something more interesting, with a good idea, that it be original and that we can do it with our own hands in manual style. Although from the article for gifts from architects we found the following model…
Following the line of making camera obscura with crafts from HERE (In the part bottom where it says Download) we can't download the camera plans to mount the next… Easy and fast!
A perfect example of using cameras pinholes photographing the architecture or making photos of natural landscapes in the style professional is from Mr. Wolff, one of the most representative of this technique that also I really like Spain.
For those who want to stand out in the neighborhood there are an infinity of proposals and different types of camera obscuras with a really spectacular, although, in our opinion and for beauty, the Ondu Pinhole wooden camera is almost perfect.
And you can also add a reel of photography of a lifetime.
More information from the designers' website…. HERE. So that you no longer have an excuse to enter the world of manual photography and being able to portrait for the I remember that hidden architecture that we like so much.
