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Pinhole Photography Rediscovering a Historic Technique

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ISBN-10: 0240805739

ISBN-13: 9780240805733

Edition: 3rd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Eric Renner

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'Pinhole Photography' is both an entertaining illustrated history and a practical handbook for this photographic technique. This new edition has been expanded to include further instructional information on pinhole practices.
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Book details

List price: $47.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Pinhole's History in Science
Holed Stones
Early Pinhole Optics-Eclipses, Telling Time, and Optical Phenomena
Noon-marks in Italian Renaissance Cathedrals
The Pinhole in the Wave Theory of Light
The Pinhole in Photography
The Pinhole and the Eye
Twentieth-century Pinhole Imaging in High-energy Physics
Pinhole's History in Art
Brunelleschi's Pinhole Perspective Device
Alberti's First Diffraction Camera
Alberti's Intersector
Leonardo da Vinci
Anamorphosis-The Deception of the Eye
The First Pinhole Photographs
Pinhole's Popularity in Early "Pictorialism"
August Strindberg
Pinhole's Demise in the Early Twentieth Century
Pinhole's Revival in Art: The 1960s and 1970s
Rebirth-The Late 1960s
The 1970s
Pinhole's Revival in Art: The 1980s
The Peter Pan Principle, or "I Can Fly"
The Body as Camera
Camera and Photograph as One
Cameras and Images in the 1980s
The How-to of Pinhole Photography
Making a Simple Pinhole Camera
Loading the Pinhole Camera
Making a Photograph
Additional Mistakes
Additional Possibilities
Optimal Pinhole Formulas
Making a Pinhole Turret
Pinhole Camera Geometries
Exposure Times
Additional Technical Information
Additional Hints for Building Pinhole Cameras
Zone Plates, Slits, and Other Apertures
Zone Plates
Zone Plate Cameras, Images, and Methods
Pinhead Mirrors and Pinspeck
Slit Apertures
Other Aperture Alterations
Eye, Image, Camera, Mind: The 1990s
The Shifting Image of Reality?
1990s Images
List of Suppliers
Index