Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Lottermoser wrote: > > Research for my class: Does anyone know/remember the name of the photographer/artist who made rooms into pinhole cameras and photographed the room with the pinhole image projected into the room? > > TIA for any clues or links. > > Fond regards, > I believe the word camera means "room" and there was a hole in the wall in an outhouse from an arrow and when the person in there took it out he saw the projected trees upside down on the opposite wall of the outhouse... covered with graffiti, sacred and profane. So he traced the upside down trees but the graffiti sure screwed things up. - - Being not the same orientation as the trees. Which were Methodist. So he had to go out and get large piece of paper or cloth or animal skin and do the tracing on that so he'd not have any Graffiti or upside down trees on the final result. But right side up graffiti-free trees. I'm not sure - the hole thing is very obscure. I think the guys name was Vern Meer and was from New York. So he rode around on his horse shooting holes on the walls of all these peoples rooms without asking first with his bow and arrow and the kids would draw all over the walls which made them not at all pleased. So they called him a "Graffiti Paparazzi Obscura." A few decdade later someone figured out a photosensive emultion to coat on the paper. Or wall. A few centuries after that they came out with FIXER. A big boom because before that every time the lights came on the whole picture turned solarized and mainly black. No one could relate. So with this "FIXER" they called the thing "photography" and thought there should be a e-mail list for people who did this with Leica's and were otherwise filled with hot air. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html