Re: More from D'Arcy Power

Hi Nick,

Thanks making these documents available to the pinhole community. It's nice to know that these sources are available on the web. Ever considered making those available on CafePress?

I was fortunate to be able to put my hands on an original copy of the 1905 PhotoMiniature (for a non-trivial price, as you may imagine). The book is libtaty refrenced and is stamped "Withsdrawn from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries"! Not a bad reference, I suppose. This little book is fascinating on many fronts, including all the commercials for products long disappeared.

The book also made me realized that whereas Pinhole photography has not much changed over time, the way it is used today is dramatically different and, as we could see from the World Pinhole Day outcome, the creativity offered by this process is fully used by pinhole photographers.

Happy pinholin'

Guy Glorieux

>
> De: Nick Dvoracek <dvoracek@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu>
> Date: 2004/07/20 mar. AM 09:52:23 GMT-04:00
> À: pinhole discussion <pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org>
> Cc: Peter Stubbs <peter.stubbs@bigfoot.com>
> Objet: [pinhole-discussion] More from D'Arcy Power
>
> Some time back now, there was a thread about a 1905 issue of the Photo
> Miniature by H. D'Arcy Power titled "Advanced Pinhole Photography" that
> eventually led to me posting that and several other early pinhole
> articles on my website.
>
> Recently, as I was trying to find out more about David Brewster's work
> with pinhole, Peter Stubbs , who maintains a site on the history of the
> Edinburgh Photographic Society ( http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/index.htm
> ) sent me an update by D'Arcy Power that appeared in the British
> Journal of Photography in 1925, twenty years after the Photo Miniature
> issue. He talks about better materials and improved methods for making
> pinholes.
>
> He also sent me the text of an 1887 presentation to the Edinburgh
> Photographic Society by Wiliam Forgan. Except for the warning about
> being careful with the glass plates, it could have been presented
> yesterday.
>
> Both of these are now up on my site at
> http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/oldarticles.htm
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