Re: Dwarf pictures

Thank you Andy

Alexis

on 8/1/02 1:31 am, Andy Schmitt at aschmitt@warwick.net wrote:

> Alex
> When you ht reply your mail program cut off part of the URL
> try:
>
> http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=jlouis_t
> hiry_1.jpg
>
> andy
>
> Jean-Louis
> WHAT NEAT IMAGES. The dwarf in #2 is perfect for the picture...thanks
> andy
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> on 7/1/02 6:40 pm, Jean-Louis Thiry at multimage@wanadoo.fr wrote:
>
>> As it is the first time I'm posting a message, though I avidly read every
>> messages of this list every morning (and learn a lot from it) before
> beginning
>> to work. Let me introduce myself. My name is Jean-Louis Thiry and I'm a
> french
>> graphic designer working in a hi-tech environment (I got addicted to the
>> Macintosh thing 12 years ago, but before that all I did was done by hand
> and
>> reflexion and of course by photographic process) which drove me to a lot
> of
>> questions and changes.
>> I needed a lo-tech activity to rediscover what was missing in my (long)
> day
>> job
>> : reflexion, nothing between my brain and my images except my hands and
> eyes
>> and
>> that's how i naturally came to the pinhole photography . In fact I began
>> pinholing from nothing to refer to, only some childhood reminicences of
> how to
>> make a photo with simply a hole in a shoe box. Then I discover I could get
>> some
>> nice images easily if I took the time to think about what I wanted to do
> and
>> what I wanted to get (until then I thought that there were no photos
> existing
>> aside the Nikon FM2). It's only after building two or three cameras and
> films
>> holders that I discover that there were a lot of people sharing that
> interest
>> ans ejoying it at whatever the level of use - from rough cardboard box to
>> expensive large format cameras, computer digital work and more scientifics
>> users. I must say that I learned more in the last few months about photos,
>> camera, eye's vision, paper sensitivity… and above all what can be unique
> in a
>> photo than in the last thirty years.
>> I build all my cameras, spend a lot of time (and no money) at it. Only
> made
>> from
>> cardboard and paper, I need them to be beautiful, clothed with nice and
>> luxuous
>> papers (I'm lucky enough to get a lot of samples from paper manufacturers)
> and
>> as solid as wood boxes would be. If I get some good responses to the
> photos I
>> just uploaded, I'll send some of my boxes. I love to build boxes and to
> find
>> solutions for the shutter, the way to attach the film holder, to make the
> hole
>> (printer's plate). I spend also a lot of time to experiment with the wide
>> range
>> of graphic art films and negative paper.
>> What I knew before but became more important when I went to pinhole is the
>> importance of the negative. A negative is a complete image and is NOT the
>> contrary of what we see, rather something we CANNOT see. It is more
> evident
>> for
>> me when I handpaint - it would certainly be easier and faster with
> Photoshop
>> but
>> I don't want to - my negatives.
>> The two photos I upload show a plaster dwarf on one with me (I am the
> tallest
>> of
>> both), and looking at the top of a ladder on the other. For the more
>> technicals
>> of you : negative papers 100 x 150 mm and focal length 185 mm, hole 0,51
>> mm/diam, etc…
>> enjoy, Forgive my english, ans happy new year to everyone
>>
>> Jean-Louis
>>
>>
> http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=jlouis_t
> hi
>> ry_1.jpg
>>
> http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=jlouis_t
> hi
>> ry_2.jpg
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> Dear Jean-Louis
>
> Your upload does not seem to be linked, but that does not matter.
>
> You love boxes and so do I! One of the things about the pinhole is the box.
>
> The box contains and in containment we can reconcile ourselves with the
> fluxes and changes in the world.
>
> But the pinhole holds a special magic. From nothing you can create an
> image, it is a truly wonderful thing. There are no hidden workings or
> barriers. There is no agent or device between the subject and its image.
> Only air.
>
> Pinhole is not just about the image as is testified by the beautiful cameras
> made by makers. There is more to the image than the image itself, the
> making, the process weaves a magic that cannot be unravelled from the image
> when seen.
>
>
> Alexis
>
>
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Received on Tue Jan 8 14:51:15 2002