Re: Pinhole Room

Ilan Wolff does similar things as well in his Pinhole Van. But he uses
his own body as the object that cuts into the light going through to the
sensitised emulsion. He then becomes literally part of the image! He
also walks on the paper leaving traces of his boots and so on...
Guy

----- Original Message -----
From: <Brigitte.Harper@glencore.co.uk>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Pinhole Room

>
> Another idea of a pinhole room:
>
> I have recently visited a photography exhibition at the Victoria &
Albert
> museum in London and there were a couple of large paper negatives on
the
> wall which a German artitst, Edgar Lissel shot in the museum.
> A demo of his practice revealed the following:
> He built a pinhole room (a kind of portable tent structure) around
museum
> display cases. The photopaper was fixed to the back of the glass case
and
> the pinhole was in the tent wall facing the glass case inside.
> The resulting pictures (negatives) showed the outline of the
sculptures in
> the glass case as white shapes (like a photogram) on a background of
the
> upside down scenery of the gallery space.
>
> Regards,
> Brigitte.
Received on Thu Jun 13 05:57:33 2002