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August 2, 2004
Pinhole Paper Cameras
He has been called a genius and reading his autobiography I tend to agree with these reviews.
The photographer, Thomas Hudson Reeve, says it best:
"The modern camera is a wonderful thing, but it's nice to remember how simple the mechanism can be. You can strip away the technology until there is little left but the abstraction on which the machine is based. A simple manipulation of space, a few materials, and a couple of hand tools and the magic (physics) is at your fingertips without sophisticated engineering."
Posted by photocartoonist at August 2, 2004 10:50 PM