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Summary: Essential for the collection of Experimental Photographers
Review: This is the all around best book on the topic of Pinhole Photography that I have seen. It's long on explanations and samples of artwork; although, it's a bit weak on practical examples and experiments.
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Summary: A wonderful historical resource, not a "how-to" book.
Review: When I first received this book, I was a bit disappointed. I'm just starting out in pinhole photography, and I wanted my hand held while learning the ins and outs of this new skill. This book doesn't do that. After it sat around for a few days, I picked it back up and started actually reading it. What the book DOES, is give you a wonderful historical perspective of this most unusual and artistic art form...because that's what pinhole photography is, an art. Photography in general, especially digital photography, is SO controlled and SO exact, that it's lost a lot of it's magic. While certain scientific aspects of pinhole photography can exert a meaningful amount of control over the subject at hand, in it's heart of hearts it is still a wild and free spirit making images however and wherever it desires. Where else can you make an image by putting a piece of film in your MOUTH and using your lips as the aperture? Where else can you make a camera out of a shopping bag, a purse, a hole in the ground, a red pepper? (Dark red works best by the way.) This book gives you all these examples along with rich and varied historical perspective into this most fascinating aspect of the photographic world. If you are a serious pinhole photographer (...or have intentions of being one), you owe to yourself to read this book. It's not a "how to" book by any means, but it is a "where you came from" book of the 1st degree.
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Summary: The most incredible photography book I have ever read!
Review: When I ordered this book, I expected it would cover the basics of pinhole photography, and it does. What I didn't expect was that the book would grab me and kept me under the spell with its incredible narration of pinhole history, practitionners experiments and techniques, and also beautiful pictures. Eric Renner manages to write a very deep, but yet fun to read prose where he quotes many famous and obscure figures. You get to hear the words Leonardo da Vinci or Plato, but also the thought processes of the photographer (among many others) who build 120 pinholes, put them in a waterproof container with instruction of use and set them at sea with a return address. This book if chock full of fun ideas for the people who like to tinker with things and build cameras out of anything, from a matchbox to a hole in the ground (and you can also make a pinhole camera with your mouth or fist...
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