RE: What paper do you use?

Hi Tom,

Please let me know what you come up with for matte paper. Ilford's Ilfobrom
fiber matte has great latitude, but is extremely show, and fiber doesn't
contact print the best. Oriental's graded RC matte is wonderful, but is now
out of production. I have a box of Foma semi-matte waiting to be tested.
Wish me luck.

Vera Lutter's lecture was slide-based. She talked about three types of
cameras that she used: 1) rooms made into cameras - these were usually in
tall buildings in New York City; 2) what she uses mostly is rented shipping
containers that are moved into place and then turned into pinhole cameras;
3) she showed us the camera that was specially built on top of a factory to
take a picture of the sign on top of the Pepsi factory. This was just a
large wooden shack, like an overgrown ice fishing shack. Here are a couple
of links to plans for building ice fishing shacks, although the one with a
canvas roof might be hard to make light-tight:
http://www.grove.net/%7enoff/iceindex.html
http://www.fishontario.com/ice-fishing/buildahut/workshophut.html
My guess is your friend could make something like this pretty easily. Put a
pinhole on one wall and the 50-some inch wide Ilford on the opposite wall
and that's a camera. Vera Lutter mentioned that for exposures less than 12
hours, she stays inside the camera dodging light to make the exposure come
out right. Longer than that, she stays outside the camera.

On a related note, 2006 will be the second or third year of the Art Shanty
Projects on Medicine Lake west of Minneapolis. Peter Haakon Thompson, a
photographer and one of the co-curators, told that he gave a stipend to a
young photographer who will be building a camera obscura ice shanty that
he'll move around the lake making giant pinhole photographs. Should be fun
to see.
http://www.artshantyprojects.org/rotatingPoster.html
http://f295.tompersinger.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=CP,m=1134879821,s=0

Tom
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