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Visual Edge 2002

Photography's Full Circle:
The Pinhole Perspective

Juried Exhibit, Page 1 of 5

Thomas W. Miller
Jeffrey Martz
Norma Thallon
Mark Interrante
Eva Skold Westerlind
Hal Rammel
Anna Catalani
Jennifer Waicukauski

The images are presented in the order being shown in the exhibition.
The numbers for each print are used as references for the exhibit.
Prices shown are set by the artists.

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All images copyrighted by the artist.

Thomas W. Miller
Coon Rapids, Minnesota

1. She says "Hi" $300
C-Print from cross-processed Ektachrome 4 x 5 film

Jeffrey Martz
Fairfax, California

2. Along Highway 1 $800

3. The Shore 5 $800

4. The Shore 1 $800

My images in this exhibition are excerpted from a portfolio of primarily Pacific Northwestern landscapes I have been creating for the past 3 years. I use a small, quiet, 35mm hand-held pinhole camera and correspondingly long exposure times in an effort to pair the resulting soft, slow, and impressionistic syntax with similar qualities felt and seen in the subject matter. I believe that the pinhole camera is uniquely suited for relating a contemplative and careful seeing.

Norma Thallon
Torrance, Glasgow, Scotland

5. Nineteen Minute Pose $100

6. Reluctant Self-Portrait $100

7. When the Self-Timer Becomes the Mirror $100

All three images in the exhibition are photographs made in homemade pinhole cameras. "Nineteen Minute Pose" was made with 35mm film in a 35mm pinhole camera. "Reluctant Self-Portrait" and "When the Self-Timer Becomes The Mirror" were made with 120 film in 120 pinhole cameras. The film used in all works was slide film that was cross-processed and printed on colour photographic paper. The exposures vary between the images, "Nineteen Minute Pose" being titled as such because that is the length of time of the exposure. The other two images took slightly less time to expose.

"Nineteen Minute Pose (The Myope Will See Reds In Better Definition, The Hypermetrope Blue)" is one image from a set of six pinhole images of myself in various locations from my youth. In each image I was either wearing a red dress or a blue. The work originated from a fact I read concerning colour and vision. Apparently, people who are short-sighted see red colours better and people who
are long-sighted see blue colours better. I decided I was going to put this theory to the test by making a pinhole camera (thereby eliminating the precision of a configured glass lens and recreating the imprecise vision of a sight defect such a myopia or hypermetropia) and photo-graphing myself wearing vibrantly blue and red dresses. Interestingly the red dress is seen clearer that the blue. "When "The Self-Timer Becomes The Mirror" is one image from a work consisting of nine photographs and "Reluctant Self-Portrait" is one picture from a pair. Both works further my interest and explorations into issues concerned with focus, light, vision, perception, colour as well as the (somewhat Narcissist) study of the self.

Mark Interrante
San Mateo, California

8. New York 2001 $230

9. Eternal City $230

10. K9 #6 $165

I work with medium format pinhole and zone plate cameras using Tmax 100 film. Exposures range from 1/2 second to 20 seconds. "Eternal City" is a double exposure of the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome and an overview of Rome taken from atop the Castle San Angelo and is a gelatin silver print. "K9 #6" from my series of dogs and their companions, also a gelatin silver print. "New York City - 2001" is from my zone plate series of New York. It is a carbon black print on archival paper.

More of my work can be seen at www.interwalk.com/gallery.htm

Eva Skold Westerlind
Kirkland, Washington

11. Blonde with Mirror $600

12. Blonde with Body $600

In the series "From the Angel Kit", I let the dolls act out their script about female identity and body imaging in front of my pinhole camera. My 4 x 5 Leonardo is equipped with a zoneplate and the prints are made on Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper. Matted size 22 x 28. $600

Hal Rammel
Cedarbury, Wisconsin

13. Surface $100

Many of my pinhole photos over the past few years explore various combinations of pinhole and photogram processes, i.e. objects placed within the camera itself (bits of glass, metal, leaves, etc.). I use home built cameras with multiple pinholes, prevent the paper inside from lying flat in relation to the picture plane, place objects directly over the pinhole itself, and, at times, point the camera straight up into the sun. Such methods expose the cameras inner and outer dimensions, blur the boundaries between inner and outer worlds, and add new degrees of unpredictability to the already complex vagaries of pinhole photography.

Anna Catalani
San Antonio, Texas

14. Sun Glistening on House $300
Print from Polaroid negative

Jennifer Waicukauski
Oakland, California

15. Pescadero Beach #2 $700
C-Print from expired 4 x 5 film

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